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Posted by chinesewhitebedsock (U5822019) on Tuesday, 28th November 2006
In the 70's there was a couple who came to Ambridge. The wife had lost a child in infancy & was suffering from some mental health problem as a result. This was manifested in what was termed then "nymphomania," ie she came on to several men, inc Phil - yes, Phil - slurpy kisses, the lot.
Can anyone remember their names?
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I have no recollection of this at all!
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Can't remember the name but they lived at the field studies centre
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Posted by Mabel Bagshawe (U2222589) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
aka Arkwright Hall!
Can't help on the original enquiry, before my time. No books to hand either
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Zoe and Robin Freeman
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Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:07 GMT, in reply to RosieT in message 5
Don't remember them at all ...but the scenario as given above sounds ever-so-slightly Hathaway without actual mental illness of course. There's nothing like a recycled plotline!
[Thank goodness they didn't try the nymphomania with Robert and Lynda.]
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Posted by politebirder (U4482231) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Thanks RT.
It's been driving me mad since yesterday when it came up in a chat between Chinesewhitebedsock & me.
Do you recall the SL?
My mother was quite shocked at the time! Said that TA was going to the dogs, all this sex etc! Sounds familiar.
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Posted by chinesewhitebedsock (U5822019) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Do you know, I can't remember that at all. Started listening during the drive home from work in London circa 1972 - obviously couldn't have been concentrating that hard! But thanks for the info.
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Yes - vaguely remember Zoe and Robin Freeman now I see the names in print.
Don't remember anything about Zoe being so inclined though.....
Dash it! - another opportunity missed!
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Posted by Mabel Bagshawe (U2222589) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:36 GMT, in reply to GT49er in message 9
Back home, book to hand. Story as bedsocks remembers
Robin had been a japanese prisoner of war, Zoe had psychiatric problems after death of children. Smashed equiment at the centre. Drawn to local musician Alan Nicholas and got Phil into a passionate embrace (interrupted by Shula). 1973 she has another paramour and Peggy says she's not to be served at the Bull. Zoe leaves Robin. he has problems stying in his job as the Field Studies Council want a married couple. He makes advances to Peggy who's not interested then leaves (1974)
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Posted by jenny comelately (U2264457) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Just looked them up in The Book. Well done RosieT.
Shula walked in on Zoe giving Phil a passionate embrace....Peggy banned her from The Bull...Robin was excited about Jiggins Field...
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Posted by petal jam (U1466691) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:18 GMT, in reply to jenny (I believe in Father Christmas) lately in message 11
Snork. Nymphomania has rarely sounded so banal!
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Posted by petal jam (U1466691) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:19 GMT, in reply to petal jam in message 12
Mind you as I pressed post it occurred to me that Shula must have had an oedipal moment. Could explain a lot.
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Posted by Elnora Cornstalk (U5646495) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Jenny:
Robin was excited about Jiggins Field...Â
How could you leave us there?! What in particular was jiggin' Robin'?
Elnora (devastated to have missed this highlight).
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I remember Phil being embarassed, and talking to Robin, who came across as the worst sort of British and stiff-upper-lipperry. ""I'm afraid, old chap, she's unable to control her inclinations. She's... a nymphomaniac."
Not those words, exactly, but that's the jist I hazily recall.
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Posted by Elnora Cornstalk (U5646495) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
In reply to RosieT in message 15
Many thanks, RosieT. How extraordinary. I wonder who the SL was then; further research is clearly called for. Now, who is it who has those back-issues of the Radio Times?!
Elnora
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Posted by chinesewhitebedsock (U5822019) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006
Blimey! Can't understand why I don't recall it. And we're all moaning about Eastenders style story lines at the moment...(although of course nobody would say 'nymphomaniac' nowadays!)
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...(although of course nobody would say 'nymphomaniac' nowadays!)Â
.......ermm..............NYMPHOMANIAC!
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Posted by chinesewhitebedsock (U5822019) on Thursday, 30th November 2006
Memo to self: DO NOT post after slurping the odd glass of wine!! What I of course meant to say was that this is a term that is no longer used. Nowadays it is 'sex addict.'
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Well, I was only little at the time, maybe he did say 'sex addict.' I remember not quite understanding it, anyway ...
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Although I seem to remember we used the term 'sex maniac' with free abandon, then.
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Posted by chinesewhitebedsock (U5822019) on Thursday, 30th November 2006
I suspect that your memory is accurate, RosieT. 'Sex addiction' is a recent term, imported from the US. In the 70s, 'nymphomania' would have been used.
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But only women can be nymphomaniacs. Anyone can be a sex addict. Equal opportunities probably had something to do with it.
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Posted by chinesewhitebedsock (U5822019) on Thursday, 30th November 2006
Snork!
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Posted by antiquelemonsqueezer (U5585422) on Sunday, 3rd December 2006
Isn't the male equivalent of nymphomania when you really really can't help it, without being too specific, called satyriasis?
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<But only women can be nymphomaniacs. Anyone can be a sex addict. Equal opportunities probably had something to do with it.Â
Where do you apply?
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Posted by chinesewhitebedsock (U5822019) on Tuesday, 5th December 2006
Oxford Compact Dictionary definition (cos I can't be bothered to get up and look in my Collins big dictionary) = 'excessive sexual desire in men'
Surely that applies to most of them...?
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