After the End of Sex

novalis
3 min readFeb 12, 2018
  1. Perhaps more than anything I’ve written on Medium — and this is not saying much — The End of Sex provoked reader-response; not a negative or critical response, but almost like people felt compelled to keep writing after I had stopped, as if I had not gone far enough, as if the topic of the loss of eros was personal them — as indeed, I imagine it was. What this ridiculously small size hints at, is the disjunction between media characterizations of sex in America (Trump vs Feminists! Jessica Chastain vs Harvey Weinstein!) and how people actually feel, think, desire. Media does not provide nuance, yet, media seems to be…

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