"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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