Tarts?

phoenix

What's wrong with Jeremy Clarkson?

Nothing, honest... if he happens to be your fantasy man, helshea who are we to criticise

As if! But his tongue in cheek humour does make me smirk sometimes.

I think some of his comments are more "foot in mouth" than "tongue in cheek".

I'm sure his mother loves him

Well, somebody has to! Now, go and try my trick, please!

Is tart a bit of a northern expression, slapper seem a more popular word down here

The fifties called. They want their attitudes back. (I got that off Mumsnet, good innit?)

'Slag' is the derogatory word of choice for many young people. Perhaps 'stud' means a promiscuous young man, but to most people that is more complimentary than otherwise.
Double standards are alive and well. The pressure on girls to 'give out' is immense - my two GDs both started 'going steady' with one boy from the time they were 15 because if they had gone out with a succession of boys they would have been considered 'easy'.
Life was so much easier when I was a teenager in the 50's. Fear of pregnancy and of getting a 'reputation' in my small town kept me virginal until I was engaged - I had dates with dozens of boys before I met my ex-husband and all but one accepted that I just was not 'that kind of girl'. The exception told me honestly that he was looking for sex so he wouldn't be taking me out any more.

Where does that helshea keeping popping off to? She starts these threads and then............

off she goes!!

I don't mind - as long as the threads are interesting I don't care what her/his motive is.

Oh, helshea hasn't got any motive.

I just wondered where she is?

Come back helshea!

I am rather partial to Shakespeare's "irksome strumpet". As for men – I don't think either philanderer or libertine, which sounds really seedy, is at all complimentary.

What about the name Jezebe? associated by the early 20th century with fallen or abandoned women

Frankie Laine recorded "Jezebel" (1951),

Do men have such name I wonder, after all if a man "sleeps" around you can hear a chorus of "get in my son" !
Im getting off my soap box now and Im going out to "strutt my stuff". Now where are my fishnet stockings, short skirt and red stiletto heels

I'll get them back to you as soon as I've finished with them *Annika!

greenmossgiel you have them Ive been searching high and low for them, but come to think of it I thought Carol borrowed them.
My memory is getting so bad.I can't seem to remember a thing, now where are my fishnet stockings, short skirt and and red stiletto heels

Can a tart be elegant? Or, to put it another way, is there such a thing as an elegant tart?

You mean Audrey Hepburn/Grace Kelly sort of thing? Not Mae West? I think if a tart was elegant it would spoil the image a bit.

I recall the part played by Joanna Lumley in Shirley Valentine. Very elegant and posh but she referred to herself as a tart - albeit a very expensive one!

If a woman marries a man she does not love because he can give her the lifestyle she wants (and vice versa) is it legalised prostitution?

Pompeyguy who resurrected this thread, has gone a bit quiet!

Pompey do tell us what you think makes a tart or a slag. We need the male point of view. Or any other bloke who is having a read of this thread.

Top of my list would be Katie Price (Jordan ), she'd have to pay me.

I think the difference between a tart and a slag is that a tart does it for money whereas a slag is a promiscuous and usually rather unattractive young woman but not necessarily a prostitute.