 It was published in "The New Yorker" in April 1965.Indeed, the poet Kenneth Slessor told Thea Astley to "tell that women I'll publish any word she writes".In 1974, using the pseudonym Chris Willoughby, she wrote a lampoon for "Tabloid Story" as the result of her anger at "the sexism of the Frank Moorhouse/Michael Wilding "tabloid Story" tales of sex with an unconscious drugged girl at a party".