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Your support makes all the difference.THE LATEST sex video to melt your machine, Making Love the French Way, comes just in time for Valentine's Day. This week the Candid Caller, without a word of warning, suddenly whipped out a phonecard and asked: 'Have you ever seen a sex video and would you want one as a Valentine gift?'
Mrs Margaret Amour of Newton-le- Willows, Merseyside: 'I haven't ever seen one but I wouldn't mind one. I'm very much with it. I've got an 86-year-old husband here still knocking around. I'd say the secret to a long-lasting relationship is trust - if you haven't got trust the sex doesn't matter.'
Mrs Pat Valentine of Crick, Northampton: 'I haven't seen any of these videos. They're for younger people. I wouldn't watch one.'
Mr Colin Kiss of Billericay, Essex: 'I haven't seen any and wouldn't thank you for one. I shouldn't think the French have anything to teach us.'
Mrs Judith Boon of Glasgow: 'Yes, I've seen one. They're soft porn and not worth getting excited about. A video isn't the first thing that comes to mind as the ideal Valentine present.'
Mr Andrew Mills of Hampstead, north London: 'I haven't seen them and wouldn't buy them myself, although I would gladly watch them.'
Dame Barbara Cartland of Potters Bar, Hertfordshire: 'I haven't seen any of these tapes and I wouldn't want to. The British aren't as romantic as they used to be - they all talk about sex all the time which isn't my sort of romance.
All the talk in the papers about sex is a mistake. The Express never stops telling you how to make love, as if you didn't know. The French are clever: even when they get old, the women never stop flirting. If two people are not speaking you know they are English and have run out of conversation about the mortgage.'
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