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Fans of Jilly Cooper rushed to watch the Disney Plus series of her raunchy novel, ‘Rivals’. But what are Christians to make of all this sex on our TV screens?!
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Jemimah Wright2024-11-05T07:00:00
Woman Alive deputy editor, Jemimah Wright, tunes into the adaptation of the well-known book series ‘packed with sex, romantic entanglements, and shocking antics.’
If you were a teenage girl in the 80s and 90s, you may remember Jilly Cooper’s best-selling books: Rivals, Riders and Polo, set in the fictional UK county of Rutshire. The novels were famous for their sex scenes and have been celebrated by popular culture – Riders was even picked for the BBC’s list of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
For many the books were a jaw-dropping sex education, with girls swooning over lothario, Rupert Campbell Black. In hindsight, this is a little troublesome, as he has more red flags that I’ve had hot dinners. Let’s just say he potentially would not have survived the #metoo movement.
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