“Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat Noelene”
goes the old nursery rhyme.Initially
we can establish that Mr Sprat is married to his good lady wife.It appears that Mr Sprat treats his marriage
as God intended it to be i.e. between a man and a woman.The rhyme exhorts, in slang, that Mr Sprat
does not practise fellatio and we can extrapolate that he also does not
entertain gentlemen callers knocking at his backdoor, so to speak.It’s fair to say that one practice might be a
gateway to the other so for all intents and purposes we can say that Mr Sprat
is heterosexual.Conversely, the rhyme is upfront (pun intended) in suggesting
that Mrs Sprat has her Liquor Licence.It makes no bones about the fact that the object of her homosexual affection
is someone named Noelene.The unknown
factor is whether or not Mrs Sprat has the blessing of Mr Sprat in her
cunnilingual pursuits.The rhyme states
merely that she “could eat Noelene” and no suggestion of mutual consent is made
nor can be thought to be implied.One
needs more information to complete this story.The rhyme finishes with, “And so between them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean”.Although
obscure euphemisms are used (most probably to protect young ears), immediately
we know that Mr Sprat is, indeed, complicit in the affair that his wife is
having.It seems that Noelene is quite
accommodating and although left unsaid it should be reasonable to think that Mr
Sprat is penetrating her as well as his bisexual wife making for a ménage a trois.Yes, it’s the subtext of these nursery rhymes
that makes them magic!Question; What is your favourite Poem containing Sexual Undertones?
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