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We are a nation of uptight neurotics

As for sex, some Brits take a perverse delight in the idea that we are a nation of uptight neurotics.…

12 years ago

The British consider sex far too fleshy for comfort

The British consider sex far too fleshy for comfort. Henry Porter, “Too close for our comfort”, The Observer, 13 October…

12 years ago

Not doing it with your husband or wife was seen as a virtue

There was a time when failing to consummate a marriage was something to sing about: before the advent of the…

12 years ago

School sex education told you everything about the sexual act

But according to Julia Cole... it is not the broad technical details that modern married couples lack so much as…

12 years ago

The British love sex—when other people are doing it

The British love sex—when other people are doing it. But we also hate sex—when we are doing it ourselves. What,…

12 years ago

The English character is incomplete in a way that is particularly annoying to the foreign observer

But the English character is incomplete in a way that is particularly annoying to the foreign observer. It has a…

12 years ago

The Englishman appears to be cold and unemotional because he is really slow

The Englishman appears to be cold and unemotional because he is really slow... When a disaster comes, the English instinct…

12 years ago

We British are often condemned as unromantic

Compared to your average Mediterranean male, we British are often condemned as unromantic—but then we don’t have much to work…

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Erotic vocabulary composed entirely of squeals and giggles

And yet even in the dark years of this century, Britsex bubbled under, though in an infantile way: ... an…

12 years ago

Englishmen are notorious lovers

Englishmen are notorious lovers; it only takes the average man ten years to ask the woman he loves for a…

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