The Editorial
By DaveTheGrinch • January 28th, 2008What a kinky mistress the English language is. To contain a word that defines itself as being “unprincipled in sexual matters” is a tease in itself. Surely there is no such thing as being principled in sexual matters. “Excuse me Madam, I couldn’t help but notice your troubles and I would like, at great self-sacrifice, to climb atop and hump you until you feel much better.” Sex is a self serving and sometimes self-servicing act and can therefore never be principled. That is why there is no antonym to licentious.
This month, OpEd’s team of writers has wrapped their legs around the phallus-cy of (un)principled sexual matters. From the breakdown of the word itself, an affair of punctuation, views on far-eastern sexual abuses of the English language and, or course, the oldest of bed-fellows: sex and politics. So grab a cup of tea or a box of tissues and enjoy our far from principled view of the world.
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