The Literati Of The Four-Letter Word

The Literati of the Four-Letter WordWe live in a time when descriptions of the sex act have come to be expected, even required, in literature which pretends to any seriousness. But this is by no means our worst indignity, for we live also in a time when it is fashionable to deplore such descriptions, to complain that they are banal and ineptly done (this is too often true), or that they bore us (which is, of course, a lie). Primary sex – our own sex life, inadequate, harried or routine – may bor...