Who is Agony Aunt?
Agony Aunt is the advice columnist of a newspaper, magazine or an online portal. The original image portrayed of Agony Aunt was of an elderly woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, therefore she was given the name of an ‘aunt’. Nowadays the Agony Aunt column is answered by an experienced psychologist / counsellor, a celebrity or even by the in-house staff of the publication. It is suspected that some publications make up both the queries and the answers. Readers write in anonymously to Agony Aunt on personal problems. Queries related to love; romance and sex seem to predominate. When Agony Aunty gets agonizing for the readers… Sometimes Agony Aunt gets agonizing for the readers as the answers provided are far too politically correct and no matter how varied the problems may be one bland solution is provided for most of them, “I am very sad to hear what you are going through. But please remember that every life is full of ups and downs. This is just a bad phase which w
