I’ve shat myself in public three times. It’s never quite as bad as you fear.
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I did an interview years ago and, after it finished, I made some passing comment about sex getting better as you get older – and they used that as the headline. The day the paper came out, I was in a restaurant with the family when a woman on the table next to me leaned over and said, in a sultry voice, “I read your article this morning.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗
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