Everything is about sex except sex, which is about power.”
This quote is often attributed to Oscar Wilde but, while most scholars dispute this, whoever did say it was on to something.
I’m sitting at a table in a busy pub at lunchtime, eating with a work colleague, a woman who is unusually attractive. A stranger, a man, comes up to our table and slides a piece of folded paper towards my friend. He doesn’t speak, and then walks away. My colleague slides the paper under a drink coaster and continues chatting as though nothing has happened.