Newsstand Sex
September, 1992
Last May I was invited to address the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. My topic, concocted after seconds of research and the offer of a free plane ticket to San Francisco, was simply this: "How the print media view sex."I decided first to do a little number-crunching. I turned on my data disco and went to work. My office PC is hooked up to Nexis, an information service with a variety of libraries and data bases. I chose two--major papers (such as The New York Times, The Washing...
