Is subtlety still wanted in a new, er, romance?

My long-in-the-tooth teeth must have been showing this week when I picked on the she-protests-too-much protests of modern dressers who seemingly oppose love's - or lust's - guessing games.

It might be normal for a fellow to wonder about what he’s letting himself in for when he accepts an invitation, spelt out or not, to a lady’s chamber.

Comparing yesteryear with today, that meant a great deal of guessing.

Now little curiosity of that sort is required for it seems to be fashionable to show everything, and I do mean everything, albeit beyond a light coating of slim fabric.

Shock, horror

And it’s this that has me staring at the radio each time I hear of modern misses protesting that - shock horror - some passing gallant, albeit a highly influential fellow, has dared to assume she is available.

It seems odd, too, in this modern social journalism that the accounts often sound as if the assumption was downright outrageous and anti-female even though the guilty party was someone in a powerful position who could change the innocent's life for the better, and very much so.

There seems an almost palpable shock that the powerful, influential fellow would dream of taking advantage.

A star-struck gal

The perfect example of this is some movie mogul prepared to help a star-struck gal become a sort of modern Marilyn Munroe.

And, really, what wouldn’t a human of whatever gender give to be a world star, and to have more than enough money, to be idolised?

Perhaps the ladies who objected to the bedroom antics that might have accompanied the attempt for stardom belong to those who didn’t succeed.

I hasten to confirm that this is a personal opinion, and please don't imagine for a moment that if some beautiful publisher-ette offered me a reading audience the size of Danielle Steele's, or Shakespeare's, me in very tight jeans perhaps (or perhaps not) that I would give up some, er, strong moral sense to make the dream come true.

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