This Week in Sex by Grant Stoddard
Ninety-six-year-old man crosses fingers for birth of an heir; Twenty-one foot long condom placed over national relic.
Bad Vibes by Em & Lo
How to deal with a woman who's got more tools than Home Depot.
Thomas Moore's enthusiastic equations ("religious institutions remain close to pornography . . . because ultimately both are concerned with life's deepest meaning" and "lovemaking is a form of contemplation"), if they are accurately quoted, baffle me: we might as well say that "eating is a form of sacrament." Granted, it can be, and sometimes is; but sometimes it is simply gulping down a hamburger, gratifying hunger or even stuffing oneself.
But, I must say, after working on St. Augustine's astonishing theology, which (in his Opus Imperfectum Contra Julianum) characterizes sin as a sexually transmitted moral disease actually communicated through semen, from Adam right down to ourselves, and which regards the spontaneity of sexual desire as evidence proof! that we all are tainted with original sin, I have become sympathetic, even grateful, when someone who was formerly a monastic enthuses about sexual pleasure.
