I have a lot of time in Italy in recent years and was always amazed at the antics of Berlusconi.  This was a politician who made Clinton look sexually restrained and Mitterand a faithful husband.  Now his wife Veronica has given up on him for breaking the rules of an open marriage.   Discretion is the key especially if you are in the public eye and Berlusconi has increasingly thrown discretion to the wind.  In an interesting article in today’s Telegraph Sally Evans discusses the limits of public expressions of fidelity.

If you have been caught what are your options for gaining forgiveness?  You can apologise profusely,  you can swear it won’t happen again or you can try what  William Taylor did.  That’s right, you stand on a street corner with an ‘I cheated’ sign around your neck.  This goes firmly in my ‘impossible but true’ file.

Why don’t the americans like our NHS?  We have a great service with doctors dedicated to shagging the brains out of their patients.  Dr Michael Rusling is a shining example of the dedicated NHS professional having been accused of bonking 2 patients and persuading a member of staff to play ‘doctors and nurses’ with him.   One of the patients was refused her anti despressants if he was not allowed to cheer her up with a friendly bonk and the other woman apparently had a history of mental illness.  Added to this was staff member Ms ‘C’ who he was also bonking. Heavens knows what he was prescribing for himself - probably extra strength Viagra!

Another fine NHS professional Dr Steven Atherton has also been up in front of the General Medical Council with some unfortunate 17yr old girl who went to be treated for acne.  According to press reports he persuaded her to ‘perform a sex act on him’ which hardly sounds like a Clearasil prescription!

I am proud of our NHS and how well it has been servicing our patients in these troubling times.

Thank you Daily Mail.  It’s like you exist to supply blog fodder for loving links.  How could I resist to turn to page 41 for your ‘Femail’ lead story ‘Why I steal other women’s husbands’   So we have Alice’s story of  her journey from gawky teenager to vamp.. Unfortunately the online version of the mail does not incorporate the irony of the original printed version which has an adjacent story promoting the trend to ‘Blood red vampire lipstick’  - Be a vamp etc..!    Alice’s story has, of course, been told countless times in The Mail and elsewhere and is a pattern I often come across when I chat to female clients.  Single women are often attracted to married men because they already have the mark of approval from another woman, namely the wife - a sort of ‘kitemark’ for sexual competence. 

Along with the Alice story (which ends in suburban bliss) there are some random statistics - 94% of men can tell if their partner has been unfaithful but only 84% of women can  Which confirms the statistic that 92% of statistics are made up by sub-editors

Rowan Pelling is always a joy to read.  I loved her writing when she was editor at Erotic Review.  Now she gives relationship advice to middle england in the Daily Mail.  I enjoyed her peice today about discussing sexual history with a new lover.  It is a topic that  crops up from time to time with private clients and we have discussed it on the Forum area too.  It is a sensitive area and female clients often specify that a guy should be very ‘experienced’ because she herself is.  I know that some male clients have been intimidated by the obvious sexual proficiency of of our women.  I wait with bated breath for Ms Peling to raise the topic of anal sex and water sports on planet Daily Mail - topics the "erotic Review’ handled with such aplomb.

I also notice that Tracy Cox is giving sex advice to the Evening Standard readers and she knows every which way to hot up a bedroom. So hopefully our LL members will enter the autumn season clued-up on all the good stuff.

I’m still on my hols but I wouldn’t want you to miss this great story I just saw in the Daily Mail.  Also my apologies to Jerry if he manages to log in from Sierra Leone - we unfortunately mistook his iP address for a spammer and cut him off in his prime just as he was getting addicted to my ramblings.  Oh, I forgot to comment on Amy Winehouse, apparently she was unfaithful to her husband - now there is a surprise