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Flat White

Sex and the capital city

20 February 2018

5:10 PM

20 February 2018

5:10 PM

From the large headings, multiple columns and country themed caricatures appearing in newspapers spread across kitchen benches and shaken out in trains it would seem that recent romping in the capital city is big news, expected to scandalise, titillate, entertain or concern us. The coverage dedicated to the topic is reminiscent of that devoted to the unravelling of the union of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in all its faithless crowdedness, the failure of that fairy tale wedding embedded in our collective memory as a sombre warning that reality and appearances can sometimes be very different.

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