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Confessional sex just doesn't add up for me

by LotusFlower | June 14, 2008 at 11:31 pm

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A social commentary piece from Barabara Ellen taking as a starting point the confessions of Carla Bruni. Further down the highlighted article Ellen goes on to make some common sense remarks on superstar soccer player Wayne Rooney's celeb marriage to his childhood sweetheart - worth a read.

So what's the deal suddenly with the number 30? In April, there was Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg with his admission of 'no more than 30' as a sexual quota. Now we have an intriguing lyric on Carla Bruni's new album. Not the one about how her love for her husband is like a dangerous drug ('My guy, I roll him up and smoke him'); no, the other one proclaiming that at heart, Bruni is still an ingénue: 'I am a child/ Despite my 40 years/ Despite my 30 lovers/ A child.'

This admission was duly followed by a double-page spread in the Sun featuring everyone from Donald Trump, Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger to Luc Ferry, and, of course, hubbie Sarkozy (aka the man with 'five or six brains', and something tells us he'll be needing every one of them, and more excess anatomy besides, to keep up with Carla).

The biggest picture of all was reserved for La Bruni grinning wolfishly, as if to say: 'Ha, I've had them all!

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generaldecay

at 03:53 on June 15th, 2008

This is a well written piece, but I don't like her message. Really, she's say that we should all be ashamed of your sexual exploits which I think is ludicrous. Thankfully, she didn't direct her message to just women, though, or she would really have got my ire!

generaldecay

at 03:57 on June 15th, 2008

But should have added that I like what she says about Colleen and Wayne. I like neither Colleen nor Wayne, but she's right in challenging the snobbery that's been levelled at their celebration just because of where they're from. Of course the wedding was grotesque, we all know that, but this perception was embellished upon just because of who was getting married. If it were someone less 'lower class', would anyone have passed any remarks?