26 April 2006

Euphemisms

With reference to the two big sex stories in today's newspapers:

first, I'd really rather not think about John Prescott's sex life; and

secondly, why does everyone refer to the celebrity in the golf course hotel as having committed a solo sex act? Masturbation is not, as far as I am aware, a dirty word in itself. And, if four syllables takes up too much space, there are plenty of demotic alternatives.

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