Sex And The State

October, 1986

For the past few years, it has been common for the media to denigrate the sexual revolution. Esquire proclaimed "The End of Sex" with a wreath on its cover. Time not only declared the revolution over, it ran a cover story on herpes as "The New Scarlet Letter." The Los Angeles Times ran a major story on "sexual addiction" with a straight face. Feminists and fundamentalists united in a campaign against sex, under the guise of an antiporn crusade, and received sympathe...