AMERICA: Our sexual recession

I read with great interest Steve Cameron’s column regarding intimacy in Friday’s Coeur d’Alene Press. Limited by space and time, his careful discussion only scratched the surface of this important issue.

Years ago my then-teenage older daughter was helping me with the evening’s dishes. She turned to me and said, “Dad, you were a young man during the ’60s sexual revolution. How did you participate?”

Hoping to bring the conversation to a prompt halt, I replied that I was captured early and promptly put to work at “hard labor.” Thankfully, a quiet side-glance was her only reaction. I lacked the ability to answer her question with an answer that better served her request for guidance.

Over a decade ago, in order to get a more balanced view of America’s ongoing issues, I became an avid reader of The Atlantic, a greatly respected, left-leaning literary magazine. This month’s cover article is titled “The Sex Recession.” It is a long and exceptionally well-written piece that would be a great read for those wanting to expand on Steve Cameron’s carefully crafted incursion into this potentially explosive issue.

An ancient adage held that forbidden fruit is the most enticing to humans. In modern day, sex is rarely forbidden. This may explain, in part, why it is in “recession.”

DICK SHELDON

Coeur d’Alene