Sarah Harte: The way we talk and write about sex in Ireland has truly changed

The walk of shame is probably dead because shame is dead and buried in the grave

David Tennant, Alex Hassell, Aidan Turner, Emily Atack, and Nafessa Williams in the screen adaptation of Jilly Coopers’ ‘Rivals’.

Sex is in the ether. You can’t read a paper without a review for the screen-adapted version of Jilly Cooper’s racy novel Rivals; cue nostalgia from an older generation about the good old days when men were men and women were women. 

Jilly Cooper described her books as “low morals and high fences”.