4 September 2004  
Cover Story
A party split from top to toe
And a PVC catsuit split from neck to crotch
  Boris Johnson
 FEATURES
BROWN BOTTOMS OUT
I just bought some arseless leather chaps
  Simon Heffer
MONOPOLY MONEY
Only a free market can guarantee the supply of edible panties
  Ross Clark
A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
The domestic price of chasing after Bush
  Rod Liddle
THE FORLORN QUEST FOR FAMILY VALUES
I am surrounded by harlots and whoremasters
  Peter Hitchens
WHY SWEATY DONKEY-SEX COULD DEFEAT AL-QAEDA
If Europe is serious about fighting terrorism they should take a long close look at my throbbing pocket-snake
  Mark Steyn
RAMPANT AND ENGORGED
How knicker-sniffing made a new man of me
  Geoffrey Wheatcroft
THE TREASON OF THE CLERKS
What Hayek has to teach us about achieving longer orgasms
  Anthony Lipmann
PURGING THE PRIVILEGED
Fun with enemas
  Rachel Johnson
THE LOVE DOCTOR IS IN THE HOUSE
Who wants a prophylactic injection?
  Theodore Dalrymple
 EDITORIAL
PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
A speedy round-up of the week's news. Speedy because most of it's happening in our stationery cupboard
 
THE LEADER
Courting the press: how far will government ministers go on a first date?
 
POLITICS
Climbing the slippery pole: who's in, who's out, who's warming the Johnson's Baby Oil
  Peter Oborne
DIARY
My wife thinks I play piano in a whorehouse
  Michael Heath
ANOTHER VOICE
I feel left out. Why can't a gay man get any action around here?
  Matthew Parris
 CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE
A RICH BAZAAR
Singles, swingers, car-key parties, discreet massage
   
 ONLY ON THE WEB
FEEDBACK
Readers respond to recent articles published in The Shagtator. With a taut urgency
   
 COLUMNISTS
MEDIA STUDIES
Playgirl is where column inches really matter
  Stephen Lover
WATCH YOUR TONGUE
I think it's caught in my coil
  Dot Wordsworth
BANNED WAGON
A weekly survey of world restrictions on free love
  Ross Clark
ANCIENT AND MODERN
A classicist draws on ancient wisdom to illuminate contemporary follies. This week, the Kama Sutra
  Peter Jones
 CARTOONS
BEN AND KATIE AND OTHER CARTOONS
 BOOKS
THIS WEEK'S BOOK REVIEWS
How Edmund Burke invented the wheelbarrow position
   
 LIVES
HIGH LIFE
I can't believe how louche these people are
  Taki
A DOG'S LIFE
'I had to bark twice when he was on target for the G-spot'
  Lucy the Guide Dog
YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED
Sexual Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Whiplash
  Mary Killen

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