Now look here, really and truly and honestly, I was intending to write a deeply serious post based on an expert report by Andrew Critchlow in The Telegraph on the dangers of the forthcoming credit crash in China which is already being signalled in the rising price of gold when, right at the bottom of his article, I saw a list of links to other items in the paper beginning with The Great Oral Sex Debate written by a very attractive lady called Rebecca Holman. I have e-mailed her to offer my views on this all-important matter but, alas, so far she has failed to respond - can't think why.
To be honest, there wasn't much new in her piece except for yet another example of 'the times, they are a-changing' because all of her lady friends whom she consulted on this, er, delicate matter seemed entirely blasé concerning the practice which definitely did not coincide with my, admittedly ancient, recollections of 'back in the day' when the common response to a stammering plea was either 'You must be joking!' or 'Get lost!'
However, the really interesting thing I learned from Ms. Holman's essay on this subject emanated from America - why am I not surprised? Entirely appropriately, given its name, the State of Virginia is proposing to outlaw oral sex for teens between the ages of 15 to 17 but good, old-fashioned shagging is still OK! Now I am second to none in my admiration for the "good ol' US of A" but sometimes I do wonder about them and even more these days I worry about them, too!