NHS Spends £7,500 on 'Porn Room'

...so Taxpayers Alliance and The Sun complains:

(You'll have to excuse The Register's irreverent writing style.)

Hmmmm, problems with this. First, the cost was shared with a private clinic. Second, what's £7,500 compared to the tens of millions of pounds the NHS spends on giving away entirely unnecessary IVF treatment for free ?

 

I can't see too much wrong with it. It isn't a huge amount of money by any means and I think that men would find it more enjoyable to wank off watching a movie than reading a magazine.

 

Given the quality of the magazines they use, I wouldn't be surprised if they hindered the process more than anything else.

 

Have you been drinking?

 

No, I was just talking to my best friend on the phone while typing.

 

Ah, the one-handed, not-looking typing method. Know it well.

 

^ The one that usually accompanies the fap-fap-fap sound...

 

Lesbian redheads in 720p or it just isn't happening.

 

Wouldn't free wifi have been cheaper?

 

I'm not saying it's bad, just maybe a little different to how most organisations would report news.

 

So can anybody stop by and make a donation?

 

Answering your non-serious question seriously, no - the clinic is for couples undergoing IVF treatment.

One thing I never got, why does the guy have to go in some cubicle on his own ? Is there any reason why the potential mother of his child can't, you know, 'help' ?

 

That's what made me ask, actually. I always thought "aids" were for donors, not couples.

 

7500 for a fap room???

Seriously?

Get a nice 40'' TV for under 100 bucks (and if you did your shopping right that's be one good TV), a BR player for 200-300 and a nice, comfy chair and you didn't spend 2000.

Where the hell do they buy and can i sell them some stuff?

 

Whoa, where the hell are you getting 40" TVs for $100 or less? Hook a brother up!!

 

^think he dropped a zero.

 

We didn't go as far as IVF, but we did do IUI 4 times and we were told that we could go to the "donation room" as a couple if we wanted to.

One morning I was waiting for my turn and saw a couple leaving.

So at least in the US, there's that option.

 

^Well, that's good I suppose.