As Lord Oakeshott has launched a financial popular front by contributing support to 30 Labour parliamentary candidates (Report, 22 January), may we expect in return that a generous Labour donor will give £10,000 to each 30 Lib Dem candidates in marginal seats? I await the news.
Bill Rodgers
House of Lords
• Caroline Quentin’s use of the word “asexual” (‘As the years go by I enjoy my sexuality more’, G2, 21 January) seems to assign negative connotations to the word: people over 50, perceived by others as being too old for sex, or those who cannot enjoy sex due to advanced age. I should like to point out that the term asexual is defined by the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as “a person who does not experience sexual attraction”. Asexual people can be of any age and being asexual is not caused by a loss of libido linked to age. The asexual community is not helped by inaccurate use of this term.
Carolyn Sutton
Glastonbury, Somerset
• Did Keith Flett (Letters, 22 January) really write “a phenomena”? You’ll be telling me next he’s shaved off his beard.
Robin Lustig
London
• Joan Smith (The Sexual Revolution made Page 3 possible. A feminist revolution ended it, 21 January) says: “There is no evidence that anyone actually burned a bra.” Maybe not. But clearly inspired by bra-burning tales, my brother, at the conclusion of a school debate on “men’s lib”, burned a pair of Y-fronts to make his point.
Diana Cairns
Edinburgh
• A friend of mine was waiting outside an “engaged” public toilet in Paris (Letters, 22 January). When the door eventually opened a gentleman came out and seeing her said: “Excuse me madam.” He went back in and put the seat down.
Jim McLean
London
• How helpful of the Met Office to issue a “yellow snow warning” (Report, 15 January). I was advised never to eat yellow snow.
Mike Kelter
Bushey, Hertfordshire
