I don’t think England should be represented abroad by an unmarried man... It might lead to complications. Oscar Wilde, A…
It is also, you will notice, foreign. We find it helpful to associate sexual products and practices with foreigners because—naturally—we…
Remember that for most of the last century this country’s iconic woman—our Madonna, as it were (in both the Catholic…
The reasons for non-consummation are the same as ever, she reports, in spite of our apparent enlightenment on sexual matters.…
Others say they’re both Christian and so didn't do it before they got married—and then cannot bear to do it…
In some bedrooms, it seems, the Victorian age lives on. There are still men like John Ruskin, who failed to…
As for sex, some Brits take a perverse delight in the idea that we are a nation of uptight neurotics.…
The British consider sex far too fleshy for comfort. Henry Porter, “Too close for our comfort”, The Observer, 13 October…
There was a time when failing to consummate a marriage was something to sing about: before the advent of the…
But according to Julia Cole... it is not the broad technical details that modern married couples lack so much as…