The Sunday Times, 

The idea for my experiment came to me when a friend got exasperated that I’d been single for four years. “Perhaps you’re… just too nice? Men love bitches, you know. I have just the book for you.” I was forcibly lent a silly paperback called Men Adore a Bitch.

I laughed as I turned the pages. What if I actually took this advice to the extreme? Would men really respond to being treated like pond scum by an adversarial amour?

Other friends had their own ideas as to why I was “still” single. “You need to tone it down a bit, you might come across as a bit… loose. They won’t take you seriously,” one remarked, flaring her nostrils and peering down at my buttock-skimming…