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eye candy and the sad state of the human male ….

I read this fellow quite often, he’s pretty darn good even when I may not agree. But he’s a good word smith and his subject matter today really caught my attention.
I don’t think I have ever read anything about the male condition that says it as well in so few words. 

Not only that, but it gives me all the excuse I need to include some eye candy which he gives us by name.  Helena Christiansen
Can’t ask for more then that.

A Russian honeytrap will need all the subtlety of Ivana Humpalot

It doesn’t take much finesse to ensnare the male libido

By Nigel Farndale

There is something pleasingly nostalgic about the news that a Russian honeytrap has been on the loose in Westminster, inveigling the unwary and divesting them of their secrets. It has certainly proved to be a madeleine for Sir Christopher Meyer. The former diplomat has been recalling how, when he was the British ambassador in Moscow, honeytraps, of both genders, were set upon him almost as a matter of routine. He always “resisted foul temptation”, he says, finding the honeytraps so clumsy and crass “I had to laugh”.

Sir Christopher’s reminiscence has reminded me of when I was in Moscow a few years ago with Prince Michael of Kent and his rather urbane private secretary, to write about the prince’s work as an ambassador for British business. We were sitting in a hotel bar one afternoon when we noticed a beautiful, voluptuous woman noticing us.

Now, given that this was Moscow and that Prince Michael looks hauntingly like his distant cousin Nicholas II, the last Tsar, we as a party were used to being stared at. But this was different. To misquote Raymond Chandler, she gave us a smile we could feel in our hip pockets. At this point, the private secretary leaned over and told me — nay, warned me — that this was almost certainly a honeytrap. He’d been on several trips here, sometimes staying at the British Embassy, and though he had never given into foul temptation himself, he knew the score.

If she was a honeytrap, she was clumsy in the way she went about her work – laughably so. But surely the point of a honeytrap is that she doesn’t need to be subtle, subtlety not being something with which the male libido is normally associated. Men are pathetic and predictable, all of us chained to the same lunatic, victims of the same biological imperative. I mean, can you imagine male honeytraps working on women in the same way? I’m not suggesting, as Stephen Fry bizarrely did recently, that women don’t enjoy sex as much, but they do seem to be subtler in the way they seek it out. Men, by contrast – even old, unattractive men who should know better – lose all common sense when flattered by the attentions of a beautiful woman.

Age does not seem to dim a man’s capacity for self-delusion – but it can give him a certain philosophical insight. On another occasion, I was waiting for a friend in the second floor lobby of the elegant Hotel Arts in Barcelona. I was watching the lifts when I noticed, sitting a few yards away from me, an old Spanish gentleman, immaculately dressed in a three-piece suit, watching the lift doors as well. They opened and out stepped a beautiful young woman wearing the shortest hotpants and longest leather boots. It was like being caught in headlights. My eyeballs did that stretching out thing they do in cartoons. Steam blasted from my ears.

She looked a little familiar and as she walked — sashayed — between where the old man and I were sitting, I realised it was the supermodel Helena Christiansen.

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She had come to meet Eric Clapton, who I now saw was waiting for her at the bar behind us. At this point, my eyes met those of the old man, who had also been following her stately progress across the room. Guiltily, we both returned our gazes to the lift. Then, without looking at me, he said something in a low, measured voice that I have never forgotten: “To live, my friend, is to suffer.” Such a good line, and one that speaks so eloquently of the male condition.

Nigel Farndale

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