American Nurse Says Yanks Lousy As Lovers, Lacking In Subtlety

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 15, 23 January 1948, Page 3

American Nurse Says Yanks Lousy As Lovers, Lacking In Subtlety

American Army officers and Gls in England during the war seethed over an Army nurses’s flat assertion that they no longer knew how to make love.

Citing' her own romantic experiences as proof, she dismissed American soldiers as lousy lovers in a letter to the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. She said she prefers the gallant British and French soldiers. As for the Americans, their lovemaking technique is distintegrating so rapidly that “very shortly there will be no technique at all.” They operate on a catch-as-catch-can basis, as a result of their quick success with candy and cigarettes among hungry and smoke-famished native lassies in Europe. “With chewing gum supplanting conversation and chocolate bars superseding the ‘build-up’ in Europe, Americans have had things pretty much their own way with the females,” she said. “But the love market in the United States certainly won’t operate on this candy and commodity basis.” The nurse sadly related''a typical evening with Americans: “I go to an officers’ party. By 10 p.m. every officer has made passes at me, which, although flattering, are so lacking in subtlety, originally and deception that they are utterly repulsive. When their efforts go unrewarded the officers disappear to the chocolate circuit, and the nurses are left to walk home alone.” The nurse said that she had not attended any enlisted men’s parties, but had dated them singly. “And the situation is exactly the same,” she reported. “No wonder we prefer French or British army personnel, whose gallantry, subtlety, suavity and glib phrases not only establish the proper setting but practically make results a foregone conclusion,” she declared.