{"id":3007,"date":"2009-02-27T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2009-02-27T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:22:46","slug":"difficulties-with-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/difficulties-with-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficulties With Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was quite a few years back that I read Kingsley Amis’s Difficulties With Girls<\/em>. The hero, Patrick is preoccupied with sex and is an incurable philanderer. In fact, all the men in the book are preoccupied with sex: Patrick’s \u00a0boss Simon announces he’s unable to sexually satisfy his wife; Patrick gets through boring meetings at the office by thinking about women, and hides dirty magazines in his briefcase. The novel, in spite of having a resonance of truth, is fundamentally misogynistic: Amis claims that, at root, all woman are mad – a notion I would have subscribed to at one point in my life but eschew now.<\/p>\n

Progress marches ever on: even the luridly fertile imagination of Kingsley Amis would not have come up with this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Two women told Moscow police they bet Tuganov $US4300 that he wouldn’t be able to satisfy them during a non-stop half day sex marathon.<\/p>\n

The mechanic died of a heart attack minutes after winning the wager, Moscow police said.<\/p>\n

“We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do,” said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.<\/p>\n

Medics said he most likely died from the quantity of Viagra he had ingested.<\/p>\n

There are 30 pills in an average 100mg bottle of Viagra.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In spite of that, reality has a little way to go to match Anthony Powell’s Pamela in his brilliant A Dance to the Music of Time<\/em>; <\/em>she killed herself in order to simultaneously take revenge on the husband she hated and satisfy her necrophiliac lover. I’m still waiting for these headlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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