Thus Are We Coarsened

Lessons from a sex scandal

If there is one thing the British still do best, it is sex scandals. Strange erotic practices and predilections remain common among the prominent of my great nation, and make the illicit sexual practices of the prominent of other nations (for example, those of Eliot Spitzer) seem tame and unimaginative; while for unadulterated titillation nothing can approach the British press. From its pruriently outraged tone, you’d think Britain was a nation of maiden aunts rather than a country in which 42 percent of children are born out of wedlock and in which scenes from Sodom and Gomorrah are enacted on every Friday and Saturday night in every town and city center in the land.

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Anthony Daniels

Mr. Daniels, a retired doctor who worked in several parts of the world, is the author of Mass Listeria, a book about health scares.

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Lessons from a sex scandal

If there is one thing the British still do best, it is sex scandals. Strange erotic practices and predilections remain common among the prominent of my great nation, and make the illicit sexual practices of the prominent of other nations (for example, those of Eliot Spitzer) seem tame and unimaginative; while for unadulterated titillation nothing can approach the British press. From its pruriently outraged tone, you’d think Britain was a nation of maiden aunts rather than a country in which 42 percent of children are born out of wedlock and in which scenes from Sodom and Gomorrah are enacted on every Friday and Saturday night in every town and city center in the land.