demi-vierge

A perennial favourite. I do wonder who it is who wants to know, and why. Perplexed readers of D. H. Lawrence, by the looks of things. And maybe people looking to improve their rating on the…

chastity point system

I love this idea! As Augustine might have said, O Lord make me three and a half points chaster, but not yet. Presumably part of abstinence-based sex education, an idea the potentially revolutionary kernel of which has yet I feel to be grasped (unless you count Lysistrata. Or, come to think of it, Nova Express).

metallica react to torture claims

A story that somehow completely passed me by. Unless it’s about the US army playing Metallica at high volume to stress detainees, in which case it’s disgustingly familiar.

no future lee edelman summary chapter 1

Fun little book, but I fear the moment has passed. “Reproductive futurism” is still a handy coinage, though, and I can’t absolutely promise never to refer to anybody as a sinthommosexual ever again.

no rational being can fear a thing it will not feel

Larkin’s “specious stuff”. I do think he invented his own particular way of being scared of death - or more exactly of being dead - which is quite an accomplishment really.

carol anne duffy admired

Not on this blog she isn’t.

what does dominic mean?

If I could tell you, I would let you know.