We all knew what them continentals were like about sex

Sure, we all knew what them continentals were like about sex. They were all at it from an early age, encouraged, we didn’t doubt, by their equally sex-mad parents. If only we could crack their continental cool and get our clammy claws on their tanned pert perfection.
Brendan O’Connor, Slices of Exotica, Irish Sunday Independent, June 22, 1997