Read this and let me know what you think. Some excerpts.

In a culture wedded to the fantasy that women can have sex like men?as if men don?t crave connection and commitment?it simply wouldn?t do to have a girl like me argue on TV that the sexual revolution might not have been such a great thing.

Each article treats soul-less sex simply as a recent trend that came out of nowhere, like a fashion craze. Candy?s editor?s letter, for example, equates the ?new and worrying trend of soulless sex? with wearing stiletto heels that are fashionable but uncomfortable.

This is the country that, last week, aired two teenagers having live sex on TV. It wasn?t a movie, it wasn?t simulated?it was part of the British take on reality TV, Big Brother, in which Channel 4 picks a random group of people, sticks them together in a safe house for a season, with no outside contact, and films what happens. The show spawned the first live-TV blow-job a few seasons back, and is so successful that the producers created a spin off, Teenage Big Brother.

What Cosmo can?t confront is why casual sex might not be good. Human relations aren?t just the quest for the perfect orgasm; instead our lives are an attempt to overcome the animal, to commit ourselves to one person and by that commitment to give our lives meaning. That commitment then defines us, and within that context sex is meaningful and ?good.? If we have sex like animals, we will feel like animals. It?s that simple.

Maybe I’ll post a detailed view later, but in my current non-blogging mood, I may not