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Article: The sex files. (American attitudes toward sex are confused)(The Clinton Meltdown)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 12, 1998
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The scandal displays America's continued confusion about the mysterious matter of sex.
To an outside observer, nothing is more striking in the scandal surrounding President Clinton than the fact that everyone involved is completely bewildered by sex. Indeed, we can see in this humiliating episode the cost that America has paid for the sexual revolution. We in Europe did not escape this revolution; but we did not make it the basis of our lives. Nor did most of us adopt, as so many Americans have adopted, the Kinsey view of sex, as a tingling of the genitals, with orgasm as the goal and the partner as the means to it.
Nor did we draw, as official opinion in ...