Girls and boats...

English speakers think of boats (and cars) as being female, but modern racing sailboats show mostly masculine and aggressive characteristics – long, narrow bows thrusting through the water and tall, stiff masts for a start. Those boxy multihull floating caravans that are so popular with Caribbean charterers are totally devoid of any erotic association, male or female, which is presumably why the brochures usually decorate them with half-clad humans. You could probably make a termite mound attractive to termites in a real estate brochure by using the same technique.

I suppose the curved surfaces of sails make them slightly female, but these days they're covered in sheets of plastic and trussed tighter than an old-fashioned corset. Today's sailboats have nary a bosom nor a leg - or even an ankle - in sight, although there were bustles a few decades ago. Some of their promoters have been reduced to adding the unsubtle provocation of thong-clad bimbos lining the weather rail facing the wrong way.

Well this is an interesting topic, but I just like the girls...

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