I’ve been thinking about Monday’s letter. People tend to assume – have you noticed? -- that since people are no longer inhibited about discussing sex, people have fewer misconceptions about it.
As I read it, the explosive Vanity Fair article on what sexual hookup apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Happn have done to dating has two messages, not one.
1. Sexual practices are becoming more meaningless than ever, even in the view of the participants.
Mondays are for questions from young people. In this case I can only give the answer. You may apply your imagination to what the question was like.
This concludes the Monday correspondence which began on August 31 and continued on September 7.
Three vices may be observed concerning difficult things: Making them too easy, making them unnecessarily obscure -- and making them both at once.