The Telegraph’s piece, quoting an American writer, in turn quoted by Vox and now quoted by me, said:

Why is it suddenly fashionable for women to brag about how little sex they have with their husbands? Because in their quest for independence, writes the provocative American writer Caitlin Flanagan, today’s exhausted working women have neglected one thing…

So pity the married man hoping to get a bit of comfort from the wife at day's end. He must somehow seduce a woman who is economically independent of him, bone tired, philosophically disinclined to have sex unless she is jolly well in the mood, numbingly familiar with his every sexual manoeuvre, and still seething over his failure to wipe down the worktops after cooking the kids' dinner. He can hardly be blamed for opting instead to check his email, catch a few minutes of Match of the Day and call it a night.

Given the curious alchemy of feminism, which transforms anything women choose to do into a crucial element of liberation doctrine, confessing that one has given up sex has become a very right-on and empowering act.

What absolute self-centred, relationship destructive claptrap from people [in this case female] who have left their moorings and are adrift on a sea of gibberish. We humans are stupid and we never, ever learn from our mistakes. We have thrown the Judaeo-Christian model which, for all its impossible demands and widespread misinterpretation, stood as a rock on which to model the family.

Now, in the greedy, grasping ‘empowerment’ trumpeted by the feministi and blithely assumed by the high flying female, the madness is reaching its zenith. But not yet over in the east. Oh no.

I am in the fortunate position of dealing with just under two hundred girls a week and I might get the opportunity to be with seven or eight for any length of time. This provides a fairly clear overview of the way girls are thinking these days. And compared with the model addressed by the Telegraph report, the attitude here is rational and reasonable.

Sure a girl wants the best she can; sure she wants a good career where she can contribute to the world and to balance family, friends and commitments, with a bit of travel thrown in but this is a far cry from the sad, sad model of the woman who just won’t do anything, anything but stand on her rights.

How, in the name of men and women, can one make a relationship work when both are standing on their rights instead of standing on their commitment to each other?