Love-All

The decorously informative

Guide to Sex suggested that any urgecould well be controlled by playing tennis:and the game provided also "manyharmless opportunities for healthysocial intercourse between the sexes."For weeks the drawings in the Guide misledme as to what went where, but nonethelessI booked the public courts and learnt the gamewith other curious youths of my age:and later joined a club, to lose six one,six love, in the first round of the Open.

But the only girl I ever met hadher "energies channelled" far too bloody"healthily", and very quickly let meknow that love was merely another meansof saying nil.

It was not as though Ibecame any good at tennis; either.