Libby Brooks column
Libby Brooks casts doubt on the common belief that women today are more sexually liberated than their mothers and grandmothers. "Chastity and passivity may no longer be feted but both men and women continue to view women who appear at ease with their sexual selves with suspicion. The traditional codes of pursuit and denial are defunct - nobody knows whether playing the tease is bad behaviour or a role we can relish. Is it any wonder that anxiety about sexual etiquette is rife?"