Off Message

Ironically, the more openly we talk about sex in public, the more fraught our personal relationships are. We’re not short on discourse, but empathy

Germaine Greer: the title of her new book is custom-designed to provoke Pic: Eleanor Bentall

Are women and men really better at talking to each other honestly about sex now, or do we just look like we are? No doubt we’re all supposed to be better at this stuff. We’re far from the days of Gay Byrne showing us how to use a condom on The Late Late Show, and we’ve had Graham Norton on British telly for years, delivering charged one-liners quicker than most of us could ...