A smart e-mail from a feminist-watching friend:

I liked your piece today on the [health-care] debate – there’s one other thing that I think is strange about the whole abortion/Viagra comparison that is constantly used by feminists. The feminists seem to enjoy snickering about Viagra as if it is just a drug for men’s pleasure—it’s an awfully prudish view from women, many of whom, after all, might be pretty thankful that their husband’s have a treatment for erectile dysfunction. It again shows the feminists’ bizarre view of men and women as totally unconnected and having separate spheres: as if women have no part to play in men’s healthy sex lives, and men have no interest in the issue of abortion.

It’s a warped view of sexuality that has seaped into mainstream culture, as we know. But I keep seeing signs young people want more . . .