Why virtue is its own reward
A new book by Kate Taylor, Not Tonight Mr Right, explains to contemporary womanhood why Waiting to Have Sex Will Increase Masculine Keenness. This self-evident truth was forgotten during the sexual revolution when women had to pretend that keenness was the last thing we were after. The zipless fuck, etc, etc. So it has to be painstakingly explained all over again.
Sometimes I think it would be easier if we just had done with it and decided to abide by the original seven virtues. Not gluttony but abstinence (no need to diet ever again); not pride but humility (OK, maybe that’s one for arrogant bastards);
not envy but kindness (your girlfriends will thank you); not anger but temperance (tube rage and the like a thing of the past); not greed but charity (let’s really make poverty history); not sloth but diligence (that brilliant career now shaping up nicely); and finally, not lust but chastity (wedding bells!).
SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
Morals work, personally and socially. But rather than having to figure that out from scratch every time, wouldn’t it be restful to think: lying in bed 'til 3pm instead of getting on with your tax return is bad why exactly? Because it’s sloth, of course! See what I mean?
SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
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