What is it about grown women and sex? Do they think it's just been invented?
When I was thirteen our (all-girls) form teacher took us for Latin. I loved English, so had chosen the 'dead' language in the hope that it would help me to become a writer. Every morning, when she took the register, Miss Wright made us answer in Latin, our surnames denoting the pecking order with the addition of 'please.'
'Please' in Latin, translates as 'si placet' (with the emphasis on the hard 'c.') . We trainee teenagers carried it off without a hitch, until it came to six, which sadly, is 'sex' in Latin. And yes - you've guessed it - I was number six. Each day for a whole year I shouted 'Sex si placet,' to the great amusement of all my friends. Childish, puerile even, if girls can be called such a thing.
Move forward to 2012 and 'Fifty shades of Grey.' Middle aged women are reading this masochistic tome on their Kindles, giggling, like teenagers and sniggering behind their hands. Did I miss something? Has sex been re-invented? Are pensioners the new teens?
D. H Lawrence, eat your heart out. Lady Chatterley might just have become a Dame...
When I was thirteen our (all-girls) form teacher took us for Latin. I loved English, so had chosen the 'dead' language in the hope that it would help me to become a writer. Every morning, when she took the register, Miss Wright made us answer in Latin, our surnames denoting the pecking order with the addition of 'please.'
'Please' in Latin, translates as 'si placet' (with the emphasis on the hard 'c.') . We trainee teenagers carried it off without a hitch, until it came to six, which sadly, is 'sex' in Latin. And yes - you've guessed it - I was number six. Each day for a whole year I shouted 'Sex si placet,' to the great amusement of all my friends. Childish, puerile even, if girls can be called such a thing.
Move forward to 2012 and 'Fifty shades of Grey.' Middle aged women are reading this masochistic tome on their Kindles, giggling, like teenagers and sniggering behind their hands. Did I miss something? Has sex been re-invented? Are pensioners the new teens?
D. H Lawrence, eat your heart out. Lady Chatterley might just have become a Dame...
