Alexander Chancellor writes in the Spectator diary:
“The Times, once the national family newspaper, knows no boundaries any more. A headline in its Weekend section last Saturday read: ‘Is the “cowgirl” position dangerous?’
I wouldn’t expect many Spectator readers to know, any more than I did, what the ‘cowgirl position’ is. But if you’d read the article — written by a ‘sex counsellor’ — you would have learnt that it means a woman sitting on top of a man. The danger referred to is that it could fracture the man’s penis.
I know that the newspaper once had a famous advertising campaign with the slogan ‘Top people take the Times’, but I don’t think that will do as an excuse. I think of William Rees-Mogg and weep”.
By coincidence, a piece in the Speccie the previous week by Victoria Mietchen was headlined: “I should have been a cowgirl”. There is, of course, no connection. Ms Mietchen is writing a novel that happens to be a western.