The American Puritan impulse runs deep on many levels, so ingrained that some people don’t recognize it in themselves.

I had to experience French culture before I understood how different public attitudes could be about sex.

Patriarchy is indeed a big problem, and so is prudery, which is sometimes but not always part of patriarchy.

In some cases, we’re so filled with the idea that unabashed pleasure in sex is “naughty” that we don’t know how to break out of the paradigm.