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And thus it is that of all our dying traditions, the secret life of the British male aristocrat has remained among the best-preserved. For centuries, furtive toffs have crept to the eighteenth-century enclaves of Shepherd's Market and Soho to enjoy light flagellation or a bit of French from girls with Eliza Doolittle vowels. Brothels are booming despite the credit crunch, and recent imports of talent from the Baltic States have made die-hard Tory males reconsider their position on joining Europe. There may not be much mileage for the heritage industry in this, but it's frightfully good news for any girl lucky enough to land herself a lover whose name is in Debrett's. Englishmen of a certain sort may not have the intellectual élan of the French, or the operatic charm of the Italians, but with good training (think enthusiastic Labrador puppy), they can be rather spectacular lovers.

For a start, they're so touchingly grateful. Let's face it, free love hasn't been all it was cracked up to be for the girls. The average Manhattan metrosexual expects a taut ride through half the positions in the Kama Sutra, a gourmet organic breakfast and an underwear collection from Agent Provocateur, and even then he doesn't call you.

Of all our dying traditions, the secret life of the British male aristocrat has remained among the best-preserved.

He certainly won't stand up when you leave the table — or give you $100 for the powder room. But the Englishman is still so convinced that sex is something nasty which women obligingly tolerate, that any hint of enthusiasm on your part transforms you, in his eyes, into a cross between Zola's Nana and Angelina Jolie. Admittedly, his technique may require a little guidance (aristos learn from their ancestral bloodstock — hence the lord who consulted the family doctor about infertility, only to discover he'd been buggering his wife for years), but once you've shown him that "clitoris" isn't a place his great-grandfather used to govern, he'll happily go down for hours — at least outside the shooting season. And, marvelously, Englishmen don't do emotions, which means you don't have to listen to post-coital rants about his relationship with his father or whether his shrink's right about his co-dependency issues. You can also get as drunk as you like without his thinking it's at all peculiar, and he won't expect you to shower at any point in the proceedings.

Contrary to our reputation, excess has always been a British inclination. We couldn't content ourselves with a few colonies, and these days we can't content ourselves with continence. But properly played, the Englishman's will to conquer can have cataclysmically delightful consequences. Noblesse will always oblige — even if he does keep his socks on.

 

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Comments ( 15 )

I came to this article with a ladyboner for the Brits; I found it wilting away by the first page and absolutely dormant by the end. I'm tearing up my Soho House application.
M.C. commented on Sep 14 09 at 12:39 pm
"For a start" comes in the second to last paragraph! I'm all for clever puns and literary references, but there's only one paragraph in the piece that purports to talk about the subject matter. How much of the Brits' sad sexual past do we have to wade through before we get to the good stuff? Next time, more strumpet, less crumpet.
AA commented on Sep 14 09 at 2:58 am
I'm English, and have lived my whole life in England.. None of this appears to be truth to me.
RO commented on Sep 14 09 at 5:44 am
"Perhaps because so many Englishmen are still educated at boarding schools" What an utter load of bollocks. Only a minority of over-privileged toffs are educated at boarding school. And only daily mail reading middle-england twats were shocked by belle de jour. Crude national stereotypes are crude.
DJC commented on Sep 14 09 at 7:11 am
this article is total utter nonsense. i am a working class girl that ended up attending both Oxford and then Cambridge universities.I now live in New York. I have dated my fair share of aristocracy, Eton educated, Andover educated, yale educated and totally uneducated English and American men. I just have to say I really can't see where this woman has done her research at all.
dt commented on Sep 14 09 at 11:40 am
pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek, i thought.
cmn commented on Sep 14 09 at 11:53 am
yeah, i don't think the author was purporting to do anthropology. she was just having a laugh.
mla commented on Sep 14 09 at 1:18 pm
I thought it was pretty funny. But I don't know if any English boys will.
MW commented on Sep 14 09 at 5:16 pm
Alright editors: Who allowed humor onto this website? Why now???? Sex is serious stuff, you know. Lisa, you threw me for a loop until I heard myself laugh.
PF commented on Sep 14 09 at 7:11 pm
Spot on! Just wish she'd riffed on these fellas trying to perform analingious.
Tits commented on Sep 14 09 at 8:31 pm
I agree with the "more strumpet, less crumpet" comment left earlier... there's simply no meat in this article until the very end.
EM commented on Sep 14 09 at 10:21 pm
I have a thing for British men.... Hm, maybe it's in the accent. However, from my meager two experiences, I would have to wholeheartedly agree with the author. One more reason to love the Brits - moldable ;)
TDK commented on Sep 16 09 at 1:45 am
Oh please. Brits - proles and toffs alike - have no finesse whatsoever. A quick drunken shag is considered spectacular. And enthusiasm? In bed? You just gave me a good laugh. I used to think Brits were dead sexy until I lived there.
SS commented on Nov 06 09 at 6:22 pm
dt, I totally want to know your life story
Mina commented on Nov 16 09 at 8:43 pm
Man's point of view: We are a US couple with an open relationship who travels to the UK for the shooting. Here's the man's side of the story as counterpoint. We've found it "open season" on many UK women. An American man in Britain is thought of as a cowboy or gangster because of TV. This brings with it a certain air of fantasy. That being said I have had several women of all ages try to seduce me in rather titillating ways both while I was alone and in company of my better half. Most of them were married women with much older or otherwise rich husbands. I've done them - the ladies, not the husbands -i n a grouse butt, in the bedroom while their elderly husbands slept in their own room, and so on. It seems they just weren't getting enough. The women seem to like it often and rough with a bit of sweetness thrown in. As the article says many are used to getting buggered but few have experienced good oral sex. Men, suggest you take a shower or bath together at some point and then have at it! There are some beautiful English roses, and remember to grasp the Scottish thistle hard and it will not hurt!
TFT commented on Mar 25 10 at 11:40 am

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