I’m not obsessed with sex. And never was, even at a much
younger age. Moreover, I never paid much attention to the ingredient of sex in
news stories. That has changed, per forza,
since I now get my news via the internet, including from the NYTimes, making for a different kind of
reading. Given those reports, I am
truly astonished at the role sex plays in American politics. It’s not just that
there are the big cases, like that of Harvey Weinstein, but there are, just
about daily, a great many more mundane ones. My point here is to get you to
look at what is available to you—if you do indeed look.
Conduct
an experiment. Read your news account on the internet—in my case mostly the
on-line NYTimes—and “censor” the
story of the portion of the account devoted to some aspect of sex. I bet you
will have significantly thinned out your reading material.
Yes, sex makes the world go ‘round, but not everywhere to the same
degree. It’s my guess that accounts in the US will beat out reportage in the
countries of Western Europe. It by no means follows that couples in US beds are
friskier than those in other lands.
No comments:
Post a Comment