JB reports Lucian Freud to have said:

"He talked about everything. One night we had a long conversation about anal sex.He said unless you've had anal sex with a girl she hasn't really submitted to you."

'...days earlier a mob of male attackers beat and kicked 27-year-old Farkhunda before tossing her off a bridge, setting her body on fire and throwing it in the river. Like many Afghans, Farkhunda used only one name.
---CNN.

'Her father said she had complained about women being encouraged to waste money on the amulets peddled by the mullahs at the shrine.'
---BBC.

'But this power structure is cracked, it always has been; that’s why it has to be constantly propped up through force, violence and the threat of violence.'
---Finn Mackay, The Guardian.

'THE chancellor George Osborne may have missed it and the Bank of England has still to give its verdict, but the most visible sign that the economy is indeed on the up has appeared: women’s hair is getting shorter.'

--The Sunday Times.

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To learn to enjoy things and beings-that's what true intelligence is, and in the face of that, the most brilliant intellectualism is no more than a parade of imbeciles, of those who are lacking in life.'

'They created the commodity and the commodity defeated them-that's their whole history.'

--R. Vaneigem