“Cocooned in married bliss, well fed and watered, with someone else changing the sheets and washing the towels, they quickly go to seed. Their beer bellies swell, body parts droop, and their breath goes sour, and don’t they get all of us in the mood.”
Wendy Frew responds to Bettina Arndt’s controversial exhortation to Australian women to just do it. In contrast, women are expected to stay looking good:
“It’s hard to keep up appearances, hard to keep the crow’s feet at bay and hard to keep your tummy taut. But that is what is expected of women. We are expected to keep ourselves nice, keep our weight down, do our hair, paint our faces and dress like we’re not off to Coles. But not men.
And yet it’s our fault there’s not enough rooting?”
Some great entries in Sam de Brito’s blog on cricketing terms as code for sex, including:
Duckworth-Lewis: The formula employed to gauge how many drinks you’re prepared to buy a woman in order to get her into bed.
Enforce the follow-on: Sex after sex. “Mate, we both woke up at 10am and she enforced the follow-on.”
Right-arm orthodox: The missionary position.
The yorker: An acute, well-delivered line or action that virtually guarantees sex. “We were getting on pretty good and they I yorked her, so she had to play at the ball.”
“….stop screwing with the people of Strathfield and screw her- self instead”.
Strathfield Independent Councillor Danny Lim put forward a motion suggesting a sex toy be purchased for NSW Fair Trade Minister Virginia Judge.
Judge has since lodged a complaint with the council calling for action against Lim.
“Alas, the only real crime I witnessed during Monday night’s Underbelly: A Tale of Too Many Bare Titties was the assassination of any suspenseful storytelling, complex character development and clever dialogue by scene after scene of soft porn. Titillating, perhaps cutting edge in the 1970s, but rather passe and lazy by current TV standards.”
Wendy Quiggin Surry Hills, letter to the Sydney Morning Herald.
“While I’m open-minded, I draw the line at lesbian couples being permitted to have children (“Doctors warn on lesbian IVF win”, 14-15/2). The thought of some poor bloke having two mothers-in-law is too much to bear.”
Mike Young, Floreat, WA, letter to The Australian.
“There is clearly no man drought, but a tsunami of illiterate, bland, broken, scary men with a high incidence of poor dental outcomes, all apparently looking for a “slim, independent, funny, intelligent, genuine woman aged between 18 and 27″.”
Camille Manley Camperdown, letter to the Sydney Morning Herald. Which attracted this letter the next day:
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Camille Manley (Letters, February 17), as one of the tsunami of scary men, I can say from my online dating experience that looking for a “slim woman aged between 18 and 27″ means I will invariably end up finding instead a needy woman of average build between 30 and 38. Which is fine.”
Keith Glover Cunjurong
“Interviewed on ABC News Radio on Friday morning, the Opposition MP Joe Hockey declaimed that “the Government has lied about the size of its package”. It’s OK, Joe. Blokes do that all the time.”
Nathan Zamprogno Richmond, letter to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Filed under: Sex
“It’s a real mystery. We have no idea where they came from. I know they aren’t new. They look used.”
Darwin resident Laurelle Bates comments on the thirty dildos found outside a house in her street.
