This article featured on CNN is, in so many ways, a perfect example of our decline.

It hardly deserves mention that although it is a news site and not a Playboy magazine, it discusses in shameless detail the most intimate details of female sexual pleasure. Any mask of decency dissolved long ago in the acid bath of modern culture.

The article is adorned with a gallery-style listicle "10 Reasons to Have Sex Tonight" that features 3 gay couples (out of 10), a tenfold overrepresentation of the 3% of the population they comprise. And, the gallery has only one image with a baby, reminding us that "sex can also make a baby. And that can be good for you," a perfunctory if not grudging mention of the essential element of sex, i.e. procreation. The other 10 reasons are predictably selfish: better memory, lower stress, burning calories, et cetera. As if modern man is so encumbered by practicality and self restraint that he must be convinced by medical science to have sex. The propagandizing surrounding sex continues apace.

It is not just the moral decline on full display here, but also the linguistic decline. The author contrasts "intercourse", penetrative sex, with "outercourse", non penetrative sex. He appears to think that he is being cleaver by contrasting "inter-" and "outer-" as if they opposites. But of course, they are not. "Inter-" does not mean "inner" it means "between". It only accidentally resembles "inner" and is no more related to "inner" than the verb "inter", i.e. to bury, is to "intercourse". The opposite of "intercourse" would be "intracourse" which would have to be a neologism for masturbation, though obviously not for the mutual masturbation the author is so earnestly and graphically advocating.

This man is older than I am by a decade or two, and he has a Ph.D. to my M.S., but did no one teach him basic Latin and Greek roots? Or basic decency? Apparently not.