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...After 14 years of living with my crappy Victorian floorboards – with gaps you could park a bike in – I have decided to carpet my upstairs bedroom and embrace late-middle age....
...It stars Emma Stone as a Victorian woman whose brain is replaced with that of her unborn baby. She embarks on a sexual journey of self-discovery through Europe and beyond....
...Much of the attention surrounding Poor Things has been focused on Bella’s appetite for sex and nudity, with some criticising the character’s sex-positivity as pure male fantasy....
...He was born into a world of extreme poverty in Victorian south London and sent to a school for destitute children....
...But despite offering a study of the post-Victorian English propriety of a forgotten age, it was the first thing I thought of when settling down to binge-watch Expats on Amazon Prime last weekend....
...She’s a young woman in Victorian London whose brain has been replaced by a baby’s brain....
...In 2018, Yorgos Lanthimos brought duck-racing, break-dancing and kinky sex games to the court of Queen Anne and the Venice Film Festival....
...The 2002 film adaptation, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, excised most of Byatt’s carefully drawn pastiches of Victorian poetry....
...If we think of Victorian architecture, you know, the Gothic, the kind of wildly overblown stuff....
...More Victorian menace is on offer in Griffin’s latest novel, Fyneshade (Viper, £16.99), with echoes of both Jane Eyre and The Secret Garden as beleaguered (but far from innocent) heroine Marta takes up a...
...Yet in its sensitive and unflinching approach to sex, race and artistic identity, as explored through a group of students at a present-day Midwestern university, The Late Americans is thoroughly contemporary...
...Like money, sex and politics, it was one of those subjects you avoided at dinner parties....
...How to Have Sex Atmospheric films about Brits holidaying uneasily in southern European climes are enjoying a hot streak....
...In a spectacularly public humiliation, Wolf’s 2019 book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, about John Addington Symonds and the persecution of homosexual acts in Victorian England...
...The storied area conjures up images of the swinging ’60s, Carnaby Street punks, Ronnie Scott’s jazz club and seedy sex shops....
...His belief is that people’s sex lives are their own. When Max Mosley, the late motor-racing supremo, came to him after a sex sting, “I said you’ve got a 100 per cent chance of winning....
...Although at times overwritten, The New Life also contains highly accomplished descriptive passages, and Crewe writes with particular intensity and precision about sex....
...And those mixed-sex Lost Boys are a highlight: a ragged gang with tree-bark telescopes. But even they feel subdued....
...I’m 80 and she asked me if I was having sex, to which I replied yes, sometimes....
...When we arrived at Nice station, which resembles a grand Victorian conservatory, the train guard felt entitled to wish us, not a “bonne journée”, but a “belle journée”....
...The work of Shakespeare is widely discussed throughout the book’s early sections; Oscar Wilde, The Sex Pistols and Prince all feature too....
...Celebrities including Keira Knightley, Beyoncé and Sarah Jessica Parker – in an episode of Sex and the City – have all worn Temperley....
...“Why do we find sex so difficult to talk about?” she writes in an opinion piece for British Vogue....
...Many years ago, I went to Portobello Road with Kate to a vintage shop and we both bought Victorian jet-beaded capelets. I wore mine out first and was photographed and got slammed....
...Westley-Sanderson’s staging reminds us that Wilde’s highly codified comedy has a great deal to do with sex, with Phoebe Campbell’s frisky Cecily and Adele James’s forthright Gwendolen both exhibiting a keen...
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