Achenblog's Sex Talk
Joel Achenbach chimes in this morning with a blog entry on the balance between America's culture of gratuitous sex imagery and the pancultural norm of sex as a private issue that calls for circumspection. Of course, given the public nature of the blog, and the predominantly American audience, the readers are talking about the blog, rather than modestly blushing and glancing askance.
JW proposed "that ones ability to navigate ones sex life has nothing to do with the size of one's compass. But a sextant might come in handy."
ILL-logical gets serious in response to Achenbach's suggestion that Americans at least try embracing more privacy where sex is concerned. "Maybe more talk BEFORE action would address, oh, I don't know; Teenage pregnancy...abortion..STDs, whatever."
And on and on it goes. Tim offers theories on why sex should be private, and also takes up the call for a literary discussion while keeping it both on sex and privacy. Nice. There also a fair number of entries on porn, (always a fun topic and not always for dirty reasons. It really gets juicy when S5 counters Achenbach's assertions across the board. The whole thing is a lively discussion on bedroom business.
And books. Achenbach hopped into the readers' pool with what looks like some very clever reverse psychology. "Maybe today the boodle will have a long digression about literature. Ya never know with this crowd."
By Lindsay Howerton |
December 6, 2005; 12:43 PM ET
| Category:
Culture and Media
Previous: Bush's Latest Speech on Iraq |
Next: A Tortured Debate
Posted by: D. Libes | December 6, 2005 04:26 PM
We get to post comments about the comments on the blog. This is so meta, I think I have become unstuck in time. So it goes.
Posted by: yellojkt | December 6, 2005 04:27 PM
Not nearly as exciting as I was lead to beleive
Posted by: Ryan | December 6, 2005 05:35 PM
ft
Posted by: jamie | December 6, 2005 06:39 PM
I like the choice of words in the synopsis here, an analysis of contrast between sex as a public discourse and, how did you put it, a matter of "circumspection."
Posted by: Cheney | December 6, 2005 07:59 PM
Post a Comment
We encourage users to analyze, comment on and even challenge washingtonpost.com's articles, blogs, reviews and multimedia features.
User reviews and comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions.
The link in the first sentence to "blog entry" is malformed. Please fix.