Guide to dating posh girls at Oxford causes uproar after warning that upper-class women have so much sex they have 'worked their way through the Eton rugby team'

• Six-point advisory put on student newspaper's website
• It said: 'She'll have had a lot of it; way more than you'
• Publishers had to apologise after readers complained it was 'misogynistic'
• Author insists it was only meant to be 'rigorously ridiculous – not genuine advice'

By David Wilkes for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:05 EST, 24 August 2012 | Updated: 18:25 EST, 31 August 2012

As a young man’s primer to love across the class divide at Oxford University, it could hardly be called romantic.

A Guide To Dating Posh Girls warns its readers of modest means that a partner from the upper echelons will have had so much sex she has ‘duly worked her way through the Eton rugby team’.

As for spending time with a well-heeled girl’s friends, this will ‘embody all the warmth and intimacy of a court room’ as they ‘share everything with one another’ – including details of the hapless male’s failings in the bedroom.

'Offensive and misogynistic': A guide to dating posh girls at Oxford has been removed from a student newspaper's website after complaints from readers

Unfortunately, so few readers saw the funny side of the six-point guide that the student newspaper Cherwell was forced to remove it from its website hours after it was put there.

And the publishers of the esteemed 92-year-old paper had to apologise after being bombarded with complaints that the guide was ‘offensive’ and ‘misogynistic’.

Its 18-year-old author, Tom Beardsworth, from Stockport, who is reading politics, philosophy and economics at Brasenose College, also offered his ‘full apologies’.

He added: ‘The piece was written to be phenomenally, obviously and rigorously ridiculous – not genuine advice.’

The guide proclaimed it was published in the ‘interests of averting mutual befuddlement’, and also offered advice on meeting a woman’s wealthy parents, how to discuss politics, and how to handle foreign travel and ‘getting dumped’.

Apologies: The guide's author, Tom Beardsworth (pictured), in a picture taken after some student high-jinks and posted on his Twitter profile

However, the most inflammatory material was reserved for the subject of sex.

‘She’ll have had a lot of it; way more than you. Do not believe any assertions to the contrary – she is massaging your fragile ego,’ it said.

‘Mercilessly, most of her past conquests will be at Oxford and you won’t be able to bust a move in Park End [a popular student nightclub] without bumping into one of them.

‘Aesthetically he is a beautiful man: taller, broader, and handsomer than you will ever be.’

Men are warned to steer clear of discussing politics if they wish their romance to succeed. Many wealthy young women ‘profess ignorance about current affairs, but don’t be fooled’.

‘Posh Girls can feign an apolitical apathy because their allegiances are a given, duh!’ the guide said.

‘About 3 months in, the inner Tory will flash. Her godfather, it casually emerges, is a Cabinet minister. Or she’s leaving town for the evening to “have supper in the Lords”.’

Nor should you expect a posh girl to travel too far north to see you.

‘If she does brave it... be sensitive. As she disembarks the train, refrain from mocking her attire (wellingtons and a ski jacket – ‘but I thought it’d be freezing’) and instead congratulate her on having made it thus far.

‘When driving her back to your place, it’s a good idea to make a detour past the local Waitrose. This will settle her down considerably.’

Oxford University women’s campaign officer Sarah Pine said: ‘Treating women like objects that lack any autonomy in who they date or sleep with is outdated and boring.

'If this article is trying to be funny, the author needs to realise his audience won’t be impressed with such irrelevant stereotypes.’