sex

Abroad is where sex happens and where the British are most at risk

It is also, you will notice, foreign. We find it helpful to associate sexual products and practices with foreigners because—naturally—we…

12 years ago

Our Madonna was Queen Victoria

Remember that for most of the last century this country’s iconic woman—our Madonna, as it were (in both the Catholic…

12 years ago

Some married women have feelings that to submit to men is wrong

The reasons for non-consummation are the same as ever, she reports, in spite of our apparent enlightenment on sexual matters.…

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They’re both Christian and so didn’t do it

Others say they’re both Christian and so didn't do it before they got married—and then cannot bear to do it…

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In some bedrooms, it seems, the Victorian age lives on

In some bedrooms, it seems, the Victorian age lives on. There are still men like John Ruskin, who failed to…

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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.…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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