Even Queen Victoria must bow to our sex obsession
This year all we've really had has been Bridport men demonstrating a pub-skittle technique involving a deep squat and beer-belly slither, and the splendid Japanese ambassador Hiroshi Suzuki taking his Paddington Bear toy to a marmalade factory. Otherwise the old silly season is replaced by a perennial 'sex season', led right now by two heavily reported Channel 4 documentaries. Each reveals how unenchantingly dreary is the modern preoccupation with fornication.
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