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Baby, It's Cold Outside is one of those Christmas songs that's about as traditional as mince pies.
But an American radio station's decision to pull it from playlists because it's seen as unsuitable in the #MeToo era has reignited a debate about the song, and raised questions about other potentially questionable Christmas classics.
Baby, It's Cold Outside found a wide audience as a duet between Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams in the 1949 film Neptune's Daughter, and in recent years has been covered by the likes of Lady Gaga and Michael Bublé.
Critics of the song see it as the story of a man pressuring a woman into spending the night when she doesn't want to.
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