{"id":7345,"date":"2015-02-28T04:19:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/when-did-sex-begin-2\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T04:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T04:19:14","slug":"when-did-sex-begin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/when-did-sex-begin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When Did Sex Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In 1963.&#0160; Or at least so we hear from Philip Larkin in his <em>Annus Mirabilis<\/em>.&#0160; It was indeed a wonderful\/remarkable year.&#0160; I was but a boy in grade school, but old enough to remember all those <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-j-j-cale-and-some-songs-from-the-summer-of-63.html\" target=\"_self\">wonderful songs<\/a> and not so wonderful events such as the Profumo scandal in Britain.&#0160; What ever happened to sex kitten Christine Keeler, by the way?&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2401524\/Former-model-Christine-Keeler-71-unrecognisable-50-years-Profumo-affair.html\" target=\"_self\">Brace yourself<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Sexual intercourse began\nIn nineteen sixty-three\n(which was rather late for me) -\nBetween the end of the <em>Chatterley<\/em> ban\nAnd the Beatles&#39; first LP.\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Up to then there&#39;d only been\nA sort of bargaining,\nA wrangle for the ring,\nA shame that started at sixteen\nAnd spread to everything.\nThen all at once the quarrel sank:\nEveryone felt the same,\nAnd every life became\nA brilliant breaking of the bank,<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">A quite unlosable game.\nSo life was never better than\nIn nineteen sixty-three\n(Though just too late for me) -\nBetween the end of the <em>Chatterley<\/em> ban\nAnd the Beatles&#39; first LP.<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1963.&#0160; Or at least so we hear from Philip Larkin in his Annus Mirabilis.&#0160; It was indeed a wonderful\/remarkable year.&#0160; I was but a boy in grade school, but old enough to remember all those wonderful songs and not so wonderful events such as the Profumo scandal in Britain.&#0160; What ever happened to sex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/when-did-sex-begin-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Did Sex Begin?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}