Dear Richard Madeley: My wife wants me to take down the ‘raunchy’ poster in my office

It might be a little dated, but it’s unlikely anyone will ever see it

I’ve got an old film poster that I paid quite a lot of money for and had framed, and it now hangs in my home office, which we built in the garden. My wife has often teased me about it – it’s a slightly raunchy poster for a classic 1970s horror film – but now she’s started saying that it’s got to go, as the children are reaching an age where they’ll find it disturbing or – dread word – “inappropriate.”
I have pushed back on this as I don’t think it’s anything of the kind. Plus, it’s not a shared space, it’s my workspace, my Englishman’s castle, if you like. But I know she won’t let it rest. 
Do you have any advice for me, other than “submit for the sake of a quiet life!”, which I’m not sure I am minded to do?
— Paul, via telegraph.co.uk
This all depends on the picture (which obviously I can’t see) and to some extent on the people who are likely to see it – their age, their cultural values and so on.
In short, I think your wife may have a point, Paul. What “went” in the 1970s doesn’t necessarily ‘go’ today – and as your kids get older, they’re likely to have the sensitivities of today, and may well see your poster as ‘offensive’ rather than ‘hip’. I think you should have a cogitate – but prepare yourself for the idea that it’s time to take the picture down. Perhaps you can get a few quid for it online and find something more innocuous in the same, er, vein.