‘Did I say I have a TV set now?’ Philip Larkin wrote to Kingsley Amis in 1979. ‘Where's all this porn they talk about?’
Our so-called permissive society, he complained, ‘never permitted me anything as far as I recall. I mean like WATCHING SCHOOLGIRLS SUCK EACH OTHER OFF WHILE YOU WHIP THEM’.
Larkin would have been delighted by Sky's new drama Mary and George, misdescribed in the publicity material as ‘an audacious historical psychodrama’.
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