Twenty odd years ago, Marshal of the RAF Sir Peter Harding, the then Chief of the Defence Staff, committed an indiscretion, was exposed by that unlamented publication, the News of the World, and was obliged to resign. In its leader on the subject, The Times came up with a memorable phrase: “Whichever organ governs male sexual desire, it is not the brain.”
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