Taki Taki

In praise of chastity

Perugino’s Struggle between Chastity and Lust, c.1450-1523 [Image: World History Archive / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 12 June 2021

New York

It’s party time in the Bagel, or at least private party time. Yours truly is an extra man nowadays as my wife and I have been separated by pandemic restrictions for six months. Alexandra is in London, quarantining after visiting two little blond things in Austria for my fourth grandchild Theodora’s first birthday. I am doing dinner parties non-stop in the Bagel, as if I were a gaywalker back in the 1970s.

Actually, I’ve been seeing a lot of old friends who have thrown dinners for Lita and George Livanos. We have mostly been the same crowd, as New York society types have gone the way of wooden sailing boats and tennis players wearing all whites. And speaking of tennis, Naomi Osaka’s depression has everyone chipping in about how tough it is to have made 55 million big ones last year and have to face the press after a tennis match.

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