Jennifer Horgan: All this female-gaze sex on TV is a wonderful distraction

The explosion in women-friendly raunch on the likes of Bridgerton, Rivals and Vladimir shows there's a huge appetite - but is it for fun, or to distract us from wider horrors?

Bridgerton. 'It’s such good sex because it’s for women.'

I feel for my male colleague, John, as four of us hop over the school wall. We’re in helping on a Saturday morning, and the person with the key to the main gate has yet to arrive.

Swinging our legs over, on the hunt for coffee, the conversation turns to sex. Not just general sex but women’s sex, and as in any school's teacher cohort, poor John is outnumbered three to one.