Sassy snapper

Dear Lorraine

The book cover was taken in the seventies and, as usual, raises the questions: did she feel nice inside her mac and whether or not she enjoyed wearing it in that special way, did she know how much pleasure her being seen wearing it would be given to some of those seeing her ?

It's a fascinating picture, because she is clearly taking pictures of others.

What are they wearing ?

Are they getting as much pleasure being snapped as watching the photographer?

Or will it just be us, seeing the picture, who get the pleasure ?

This all raises the huge question, now, in 2004, of the difference between sensual and aesthetic pleasure. Perhaps our shared interest is a mixture of both. We still have hope - as we remember.

As we spot the something special in the pictures,those special folds and the way the mac falls from shoulders, bust, belted waist, elbows to belted wrists - in the way that only rubber folds and falls, we relish a hope that sometime, our beloved will slip one of these lovely garments on and allow us to hold her, to smell the beautiful bouquet and hear the entrancing susurrus as she responds to our embrace.

So much are so many of us becoming liberated - I think women FEEL more sensual than they used to because they KNOW more now, that there might soon be a repeated craze - I hope that's the right word - for many women to dress themselves in rubber macs again, but this time knowing that, as well as keeping them dry when it rains, the swish and rustle, the sensual smell, the unique folds and fall of the thin fabric and the feel of the rubber will become - the whole being much greater than the sum of its parts - a turn on for both sexes.

Bryan