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English girls were too sensible for sex

These girls [local girls] were too sensible for sex. They wanted to play chasing and stuff. Courtship and sex were relegated to being a hidden agenda lurking beneath the endless games of chasing on summer nights.
Brendan O’Connor, Slices of Exotica, Irish Sunday Independent, June 22, 1997

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