It seems that a lot of people have been influenced by conservative American attitudes. My impression is that on many issues the UK falls between the US and Western Europe although this is a very sweeping generalization.
I think that social convention is more powerful than the law in this area. When I lived in the US state of Georgia in the 90s it was against the law to have sex with someone you weren't married to or to have oral sex but both were widely accepted and the law was rarely invoked.
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