Brazen – or worse?

WHAT a strange double-standard Colette Sheridan displays. When reviewing ‘Sex Fantasies

Mon, 10 Feb, 2003 - 00:00
Women, for Women’ (Feelgood, Jan 31), she writes: “Some of the women are downright brazen, fantasising about introducing teenage boys to the joys of sex.”

Imagine the outcry if she had written about men fantasising about introducing teenage girls to the joys of sex: "child abuse", "rape", "dirty perverts" but hardly "brazen".

Carsten Boettger,

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