BiCrushing: Just In Case…

There’s a bit in Nick Hornby’s About A Boy which describes how Will (the implausible trust-funded bachelor played by Hugh Grant in the film adaptation) once volunteered to work in a soup kitchen, and although he never reported for duty, the phone call had allowed him to pretend briefly that he was the kind of [...]

Tags:  Â· Posted in: BCN 83: Dec 2006

BiCrushing: Prove it…

A watched pot, as Welsh stadium rockers The Stereophonics once blandly observed as though they were the first, never boils. By a similar token, a teenager who makes a concerted effort to come across well to other people never does, and realises later on that she gives out by far the best impression of herself [...]

Tags:  Â· Posted in: BCN 80: Jul 2006

BiCrushing

Take two maligned, misunderstood, yet somehow mutually-exclusive seeming social categories, mould them together and you have the bisexual virgin. In many circles, being bi and sexually inexperienced – if it’s even acknowledged as possible – is considered a no-brainer: the equivalent, if you like, of those lottery winners who declare they’re going to give it [...]

Tags:  Â· Posted in: BCN 79: Jun 2006