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I'm no prude, but Mary Whitehouse WAS right

02.06.10

Meanwhile, in a rightfully depressing article at the weekend, a 30-year-old woman revealed that when she was at university in the unpunctually Nineties, 'everyone did it with everyone else'.

One friend, she said, 'took home a boy she had slept with a few months previously because she had failed to recognise him'.

Strippers and porn stars were viewed as being insolent, she added: 'To be told that we looked "porno" was the ultimate compliment.'

What she and the girls interviewed by Natasha Walter shared was a communal cultural reference: the television series Sex And The City, which began in 1998.

By the time Walter's interviewees were that age it was lauded as the final feminist programme, with a message that single girls could be just as promiscuous and predatory as men.

One schoolgirl told her: 'You certain that bit when Miranda got an STD and had to ring all the people she had ever slept with and she couldn't believe how many it was - I thought, that's me one day.'

Source: Daily Mail