the 'alternate' (sic) American ending of the new film of Pride and Prejudice should be banned. If ever anything were designed to make poor old Jane Austen turn in her grave, this is it. If anyone knows how I can delete it from the DVD, please let me know!

Someone suggested to me yesterday that the female equivalent of pornography is the chick lit novel or the romantic comedy film. I think there's a lot of mileage in that - since what women are most attracted by is the relationship and the intimacy which these kind of things portray, rather than just sex. And I'm sure I need to think more carefully about the contents of my bookshelf.

But also, I think this may be a useful thing for men to remember when teaching a mixed congregation about sexual purity. Often there can be an unspoken assumption that women don't really struggle with sexual temptation, or at least not as much as men, and so the application tends to be about the issues that men particularly struggle with. Which really doesn't help women - not only because their struggles aren't addressed but because they're then allowed to continue thinking these things aren't even a problem.