Is it ever appropriate to use the word ‘slut’? I always take my lead from the Prime Minister and he has assured the country that it is never appropriate or acceptable, so henceforth I shall desist from employing the term. If, one evening, I come home from work to find my wife, naked, cheerfully and drunkenly providing sexual gratification to the entire first team squad of a Championship-level football club — Wigan Athletic, say, or Norwich City — I would simply remark: ‘How refreshing it is to see a woman unshackled from the oppressive sexist mores of our age and able to express herself in such an uninhibited manner. Would you like a cup of tea?’ The word slut would not pass my lips.
Dave got dragged into a world of sluts as a consequence of his newly promoted Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, having allegedly used the term in 2010 in connection with a journalist, a youngish lady called Bryony Gordon.

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