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Back to basics

Wonders never cease. This week we have learned from our esteemed peers in the scientific community that there is no such thing as the vaginal orgasm. See here for a representative report upon the latest findings, as written by Rose Troup Buchanan for the website of THE INDEPENDENT Give me strength! [...]

October 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Acts and consequences

These past few days I’ve been slightly perturbed by some newly-published research into the behaviour and genetics of fruit flies from the University of New South Wales. According to recent media reports, it seems that the characteristics of offspring may not necessarily be inherited from a [...]

October 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

The first date

There has been some debate over whether a person invited on their first date should pay. A friend of mine’s son did the right thing of treating his first date to dinner and a show, setting him back £200. In the interval his date was busy texting and at the end of the evening left him high [...]

October 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

The cost of getting it up

I suppose it was inevitable that there had to be a downside to something which can give such great pleasure to the human race – and indeed indirectly cause it to perpetuate itself. This week media stories have it that the drug Viagra, which over the past decade or so has grown into considerable [...]

October 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Has it really come to this?

Yesterday I was reminded of that quip from Clement Freud that, these days, if ever a woman suggested that they go upstairs for a bout of passionate lovemaking, he was obliged to reply that sadly – for him –  it was a case of either one or the other … The gag came to mind this [...]

October 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Declining frequency

The newspapers openly refer to late summer as ‘the silly season’ – a period when, because half the world seems to be on holiday and there’s very little going on in the world, weird stories involving skateboarding ducks, UFOs and/or the state of Jordan’s (sorry, Katie Price’s) [...]

September 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Progress report

Ocean-going seamanship is a heavily-regulated world which – with inevitable regional variations – is organised by innumerable rules, regulations and conventions, never mind peculiar national customs and other administrative systems. One group of helpful aids are the marine-specific [...]

September 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

A bit of a puzzle

Something rather disturbing happened to me this morning. Overnight, like many of my vintage, I had arisen in the wee hours, drunk enough coffee to re-float the Graf Spee, and dotted around on the internet for a bit and then – most unusually – returned to bed about 4.30am. [My normal practice is [...]

September 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Gay pride weekend

Brighton is gearing itself up for its weekend of the year, when thousands of gays head down to the coastal city and participate in a parade from the pier to Preston Park. Then they disperse into the town around Duke Street in Kemp Town and some finish up on Duke’s Mound to meet up … [...]

August 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Where are we going?

Without doubt female sexuality remains one of the most complex, varied and intriguing aspects of human society. For a century and a half Britain was happy to buy into a convenient Victorian-born myth that women were confined to the home until about 1890, courtesy of a public middle-class view that [...]

July 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

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