annus mirabilis.

How lucky are we that sex is not a taboo, and that it's just as natural as life and love. It's weird to think that sometime before, it was so hard to talk about it openly. But like everything else, it's this easy now because people "fought" for it years ago. In this case in the 60's. Here I paste a poem about those times, funny and sarcastic but with a truth underneath:

Annus mirabilis

Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

Up to then there'd only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.

Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.

So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

Philip Larkin.