Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of

Happiness Podcast.

For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want

to share that science with you.

And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley.

I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that

calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds.

Is casual sex among young people truly liberatory? Find out. Love is a mannish plumber thing.

Here's the April rose that only grows in the earth. Hello it was my fifth form mate

Daniel Inshaw who let me in on the top secret.

What you've got to do, he said, is to check the four-letter number on the top of your

Corpy bus ticket.

And then when you find a ticket on which the numbers add up to 21, you simply show it to a girl you fancy,

and as long as she doesn't go to Seyfield Convent, she'll let you have a number 3 or even a

number 4. In those days, there always seemed an impossible chasm between one's grubby sexual

preclivities and the romantic popular culture. It was all very well being told in

song that people met across a crowded room or on a high

and windy hill but nowhere ever explained how you went from there to what we called

doing it. So as Philip Roth meticulously recalls in the dying animal, those who had grown up in that generation could only marvel at the sexual liberation initiated in the late 60s.

Suddenly it seemed all the old taboos had dissolved freedom reined.

But as others soon began to recognize this is primarily a transformation that favoured

men.

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