Oh, Stephen. We’re not angry, we’re just disappointed.
Here at Being Boiled, we a love a bit of the Fry.
So although his comments that women don’t actually enjoy sex are pretty funny (and, at times, accurate), we totally understand why they’ve caused so much rage.
Obviously many have been keen to point out that as a gay man, he’s unlikely to have a massive amount of authority on the subject; so we’re not going to go there.
However, it’s a bit sad that he believes women are only willing to have sex as it’s ‘the price they are willing to pay for a relationship’.
Fry, 53, added that most straight men fear that ‘they disgust women’ and ‘find it difficult to believe that women are as interested in sex as they are’.
The comments came from an interview with Attitude magazine, and appear to arise from the notion that straight women don’t indulge in cottaging.
He said: ‘If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas’.
‘Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking, “God, I’ve got to get my fucking rocks off”, or they’d go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush.
‘It doesn’t happen. Why? Because the only women you can have sex with like that wish to be paid for it.’
Feminist journalist Boycott said the claims were ‘kind of rubbish’, adding: ‘Women are just as capable as men are of enjoying sex.
'We don’t go cruising or cottaging on Hampstead Heath because we don’t need to. Women have other ways to get our thrills, and we can go and get them in bars or clubs.’
Clubbing with Boycott, anyone?
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