Contemporary Digest

Camille Paglia takes a shot at explaining the female sexual apathy for which drug makers seek to provide a “female Viagra”. She makes a few good observations, including:

In the discreet white-collar realm, men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work. Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious women postpone procreation. Androgyny is bewitching in art, but in real life it can lead to stagnation and boredom, which no pill can cure.

Let that sink in for a minute and then see what you think of this:

The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane. There’s no mystery left.

Mystery… It almost seems like a nasty word in this day and age. Like mystery is a shameful failure instead of the main fixture of our human condition. Read more: Op-Ed Contributor – No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class – NYTimes.com.