If, occasionally, my husband wishes to indulge in a little DIY with X-rated material, he’s most welcome, and I’d be happy to discuss it in advance. It’s not as if – should one murmur of headaches while tactically wrapped in a thermal dressing gown – the friskier partner has to demand suspension of the filter right then, causing offence and guilt on both sides.

Seventy million sold copies of Fifty Shades of Grey is a hint.) So why all the fuss?

Former and current A Current Affair colleagues claim Mc Cormack was being counselled by senior management about his behaviour at work, unrelated to the current charges, and was placed on a "one strike and you're out" ­policy by bosses.

He allegedly made a series of comments to provoke Nine colleague Caroline Marcus, who wrote weekly columns for The Sunday Mail, often about her Jewish heritage, News Corp reported.

Files retrieved during an investigation conducted in coordination with Interpol and Europol depicted images of children up to 8 years old being brutally abused, Spanish police said.

Steven Wilson, head of Europol's European Cybercrime Center at Europol told the Associated Press that Spanish police last year discovered a group of individuals using closed groups in the chat application to distribute the pornographic material.

It invited people to take part anonymously in child pornography chat groups.He stuck pictures of dead Palestinian children at his desk to provoke Ms Marcus, who worked beside him.Ms Marcus, who now works at Sky News, has confirmed the incident, but declined further comment.The statement said 17 people were arrested in Spain, with other detentions made in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Portugal.The operation was carried out in coordination with Interpol and Europol.The statement said that 17 of the 39 arrests were made in Spain.People also were detained in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Paraguay and Portugal.