Wednesday, July 1, 2009

What's sex?

The San Francisco Chronicle uses the Sanford and Ensign affairs to remind us we have no idea of what sex is anymore.

Erick Janssen, from the Kinsey Institute.

"Sex is a word and nobody is really in charge of that term. In a way, our thinking of sex and definitions of sex is more complex than they were in the past."

In his new (and tremendous) novel, Somerset Maugham Prize winner, Geoff Dyer, writes:

"A strange, modern form of intimacy -- not Victorian at all -- made it easier to _ someone's _ than to ask when you might see them again."