10 SEPTEMBER 1994, page 30

Marital Love

Sir: If Martyn Harris — your recent con- tributor ('No sex please, we're married', 20 August) — is to get married next Septem- ber he will do well to bear in mind some- thing......

Why Oh Why

Sir: Spanish is an example of a language which distinguishes between Why? (from LETTERS what cause?) and what F. Miles (Letters, 27 August) calls Quhy? (for what purpose?).......

Sir: In His Engrossing Article Martyn Harris Quoted...

the latest surveys on this important subject but was remiss in not mentioning the findings of an earlier sur- vey, carried out in Britain, which revealed that after sex 2 per......

Spoiled For Choice

Sir: If Paul Johnson wants some female equivalents to a dick (Letters, 27 August) he should look up Lecher's Lexicon by J.E. Schmidt (MCMLXVII, ISBN 0-517- 455463). It contains......

The Plot Sickens

Sir: No one likes to be told they've written an awful book, and when I picked up Tom Hiney's review of my novel, The Romantic Movement (Books, 27 August), I thought of suicide.......

Me No Like

Sir: Dot Wordsworth is not, forgive me, comparing like with like (Mind your lan- guage, 3 September). Robinson Crusoe going about 'like he does in the pantomime' is loose but......