Sex in the 80's

Warning this story contains bad language and scenes of a sexual nature from the outset. If you are easily offended look away now. 

‘I fucking hate all this 80’s nostalgia, fucking hate it.’ Steve nodded his head at a group of girls who had just entered the bar looking like they had just stepped out of a Madonna backing dancers.

‘The 80’s were shite.’

Johnny nodded hoping his silence would take the winds from Steve’s sails. But when Steve was in this mood nothing could create the doldrums, in fact a gale was blowing and Steve’s sails were billowing.

‘The was a programme on last night called the Magic of the 80s, there was no Magic. Do people forget the unemployment, the riots, and Thatcher? Plus all that terrible music, Kagabloodygoogoo. God we should confine the 80’s to the room 101 of history, not keep trying to revive it.’

Johnny saw his chance to change the subject but before he could open his mouth Steve was off again.

‘And you know what was worst about the bloody 80’s, do you?’

‘Johnny shook his head thinking that he needed to find a new friend.

‘Constantly living under the threat of death!’

‘What are you on about?’

‘The Cold War, my friend the Cold War. Any minute the 4 minute warning could sound and we’d all die a horrible death.’

‘But it didn’t.’

‘No but we didn’t know that, did we? You were there, we lived in constant fear and if that wasn’t bad enough we were then all going to die having sex.’

Johnny was losing the will to live.

‘Having sex?’

‘Aids Johnny, Aids. If the H-bomb didn’t get us HIV timebomb would. We wanted to have sex cos we could die any minute but we were told not to take the risk.’

‘No, we were told to have safe sex.’

‘What is safe sex when there is a threat of nuclear war? In a bunker? Under the bed?’

Johnny laughed.

‘And then the bitterest pill was all that stuff about date rape. D’you remember? All that ‘no means no’ stuff.’

‘I do remember but I am not sure I see your point. That was good wasn’t it?’

‘Of course it was, but I was paranoid, I mean I didn’t want to be accused of rape. So once I’d found a woman who had taken nuclear fall out precautions and got a certificate to say that she was healthy, I then had to get her to sign a document saying she was of legal age and consenting.’

Johnny laughed. ‘You are an idiot!’

‘Kinda took the romance out of it.’

Johnny shook his head.

‘And yet these kids wanna recreate it.’

‘It’s your round Steve.’

Steve reluctantly left his thread on the table and ambled off to the bar leaving Johnny to heave a sigh of relief. 

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