Some titles and some writers draw you to read the texts concerned, as moths mesmerised by the bright flame flit to their doom.

Who is going to walk past Goodbye to the suburban porn star by Mark Steyn?

Not, methinks, you.

If only for his gallop through the Carry On films:

Carry On Nurse, Carry On Constable, Carry On Cowboy, Carry On Up The Khyber, and a couple of dozen others, all more or less exactly the same: a bunch of British comic actors, variously prune-faced, lumpy, dozy, camp or emaciated, would set off in improbable pursuit of curvy dolly birds but be stymied by ferocious martinets. Come to think of it, even the dolly birds were rather on the burly side: one recalls Joan Sims as Miss Allcock in Carry On Teacher.

And just don’t ask about an early rabid highlight of the movie career of one Marilyn Chambers.

Armpits just aren’t what they used to be.

Sigh.