Digital Spy have a response from the Beeb on the matter of cutting...
The BBC has now responded on its website to complaints it has received from viewers, claiming that the changes are edits rather than cuts.
"It is not unusual for co-productions to have slightly different versions of a show to reflect its different audiences," the corporation said. "For episode three of Torchwood, as part of the usual discussions between broadcasters and the production company, small potential edits in two intercutting scenes of gay and straight sex were discussed and made by production."
The statement continued: "This minimal edit makes little difference to the episode to be broadcast in the UK. Both scenes remain but run a few seconds shorter than the US version. In a later episode, a sequence of gay sex is important to the story and therefore both the US and UK will show the same version."
The BBC also rejected complaints which suggested that by making the edits it has interfered with the writers on the show.
"Torchwood continues to be a series that will ask important questions of how we all live in today's society and the drama reflects life as we recognise it," the broadcaster said. "The BBC and Starz have both been huge supporters of the writers' vision for the series."