"We are all evangelicals now.".(While We're At It)(Sex in Crisis)(Brief article)(Book review)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April, 2008 by Neuhaus, Richard John

"We are all evangelicals now." That's the message of Dagmar Herzog, professor of history at City University of New York, whose new book is Sex in Crisis, published by Basic Books, which, as publishing houses go, has a reputation for being serious. Liberals, says Dr. Herzog, have become "confused and defensive" as a consequence of the successful evangelical promotion of great sex--"soulgasmic" sex--between married men and women.

Says Herzog: "There has never been so much pressure on what we are 'supposed' to feel about our relationships, our sexual choices, and our desire to feel pleasure. We wonder constantly whether our sex lives could be better, or whether we're doing something wrong, or abnormal or inadequate. This is a radical new development--it just wasn't...

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