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Photo feature from Janus 112 featuring Irish glamour model Tiffany Walker. Carrie’s friend Jennifer suggested it. Go to Alan and tell him everything. He’d be able to help because Alan knew about such things. You see, Carrie had a problem. Well, actually, she had four of them. Boyfriends, that is; they were the problem. And now she was feeling guilty. She had been brought-up to be well-behaved, nice, and correct. Unfortunately, Carrie was none of these and she knew it. The trouble was that she could never say, ‘No’ — that was always what happened whenever she tried to be nice. She knew that she should exercise more control, but her needs always seemed to take over from her mind. Promiscuity was becoming a way of life and Carrie desperately wanted to stop before something serious happened. Perhaps Jennifer had been right. Perhaps she should tell someone who was objective. Perhaps she should go and see Alan. Hea...

A Chastising Service of the 1880s laid bare Historical recreation researched and written by  Richard Manton,  from Janus 38. On 26 July 1889, an advertisement appeared in the  Church Times . It was addressed to the parents of unruly daughters, to teachers of delinquent schoolgirls, to masters of female reformatories, and to those employers whose young women treated their superiors with insolence and contempt. BIRCH RODS. — These useful articles, for which there is an increasing demand, may be had from the depot. Of different sizes. — Mrs. CLAPP, St. John’s-road, Clifton. Mrs Clapp’s surname might have raised a smile, but it was as real as everything else about her. She ran a thriving business in the regency elegance of Bristol’s most prosperous suburb. Her advertisement might cause a flutter in the press of the 1980s but not a century ago when Victorian Values were firmly in the saddle. After all, if girls were to be birched, the birch-rods had to come from somewhere....