That’s why it isn’t used for all men.

I was going to add something else to that post, but thought better of it, though I will do so now to make myself clearer still.

It is absolutely not a coincidence that the women who stand up to be counted in this way are all, without exception, the sort who wear sensible clothes, sensible shoes, plain hairstyles and almost no make-up, and who would never be seen dead in hooker shoes or flirting.

Northern Europe is full of such women. In Malta they are the exception.

Once the facade becomes transparent there is zero tolerance for the charade.

It’s a primal instinct.

Some have it. Some don’t.

Experience is honed. Senses cultivated and on the alert.

Modern trappings are not what cultivate it. Neither does this primal sense get swayed and all awe-struck before such carrots, if offered.

There’s a rawness attached. Even the intensity can be mapped and the source traced.

Those who were intent on giving Daphne a bad name, for example – and systematically fending and fencing off others – knew that this was the most relevant danger to their fake makeover.