That was thirty years ago, so you can't blame any recent "sexualisation of society".
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Book Review: Sand of the Arena by James Duffy
A cheerful adventure tale is leavened with solid research that will leave you able to distinguish between a retiarius and a murmillo.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 36 (Women Bloggers)
From Bombay to Tokyo, from dealing with Christmas to God's choice of publishing method ...
Read More »Theater Review: Lysistrata at the Arcola Theatre
This is girl power for the Naughties, and a far more admirable model than that offered by the Spice Girls in the 1990s.
Read More »Review: Deep End at the Marshall Street Baths
You plunge into the building's past, for an experience that covers all of its history, and seduces all of your senses.
Read More »Women and Fear: Time to Tackle the Pathology
For a small child to worry about bogeymen in the wardrobe is one thing; for a grown woman to do so is another.
Read More »Theater Review: Schiller’s Mary Stuart at the Apollo
This body betrays her weakness. It is a traditional female approach to dealing with men, but for this queen a disastrous one.
Read More »Book Review: Very Thai – Everyday Popular Culture by Philip Cornwel-Smith
Bangkokitis is an extreme form of the culture shock that many tourists experience in foreign lands, magnified by the discordant meeting of modernity and tradition.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 35 (Women Bloggers)
"If we continue to defend injustice because “that’s how life is”, does that not give a green light for the injustice?"
Read More »Why Modern Marriage is Unrealistic, and What Should Replace It
To promise to stay together "until death do us part" now has a different meaning to it had 100, or 1,000 or more years ago.
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