“We live in a strange land where marketers can display teenage models in the receptive lordotic posture (look it up) to sell jeans or liquor, but the basics of human procreation can’t be discussed in a middle-school science class without sparking parental ire. The same is true of evolution, incedentally, and I think the reason is the same: our traditions deny, for all we’re worth, that we’re in any way connected with the rest of life on earth. We don’t come from it, we’re not part of it, we own it.

“It is deeply threatening to our ideology, at the corporate and theological levels, to admit that we’re constrained by the laws of biology. Sex is the ultimate animal neccessity.”

-from Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times