4 JUNE 1977, Page 16

Letters

Please, Jeffrey

Sir: How gratifying that the urbane Jeffrey Bernard is a reader (14 May) of Cosmopolitan! As he wrote in his article Press ladies, I have called sex overrated, and called it funny, and although I never actually called sex boring, even your debonair columnist must admit that it sometimes is, awfully. I can't understand why the cultivated Jeffrey Bernard whose experience, judging from his thrilling confessions serialised in your journal, is so much more extensive than my own, feels the three adjectives — overrated, funny, boring — are incompatible when applied to sex. Could the same three words not be applied to many other phenomena: to best-selling novels, for example, to most political scandals, even to some 'drunken, male hacks'?

Please, Jeffrey, and I speak as a concerned 'agony auntie', learn detachment. See the light before you destroy yourself looking for it. One more word, dear b4y, into your adorable little ear: we simply cannot go on meeting this way. , Irma Kurtz 26 Ellingham Road, London W12