"wholesome" sex

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Mon Nov 25 09:53:43 CST 1996


Anybody notice in our posts, and wonder at, how when sex is described positively it seems natural to surround the adjectives with quotes--"wholesome", "healthy"?

The quotes can more easily be omitted when the sense is negative:
	perverse
	exploitative
	kinky
	sterile

Can this possibly mean that "healthy" or "normal" or "wholesome" sex
is something pretty unlikely to come from a writer we will want to read?

					P.




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