The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the husband's stitch. The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

Finally, everything else I was wearing came off, apart from my skiddies, and was quickly placed on top of the jacket.

It was one of those dire oracular pronouncements that Marko made from time to time, which were afterwards spread from mouth to mouth among the Serbs.

[H]e is a ‘blokes bloke’. A proper bloke, rather than something feminine or obviously dysfunctional.