Opinion | Will More Sex Help Cure Loneliness?

To the Editor:

Re “For Society’s Sake, Have Extra Intercourse,” by Magdalene J. Taylor (Opinion visitor essay, Feb. 15):

Ms. Taylor means that most of the social ills that bedevil us in 2023 might be resolved with folks having extra intercourse. She acknowledges that a lot of the analysis relating to loneliness and lack of intercourse has been carried out with younger males, however then means that the analysis concerning the lack of intercourse and its social and cultural ills are “prone to be affecting the remainder of us, too.”

Is she suggesting that girls who face the ever extra unsure availability of abortions must be indulging in additional intercourse? How about these of us whose expertise of intercourse from their teenagers into maturity includes rape and sexual abuse? Or maybe those that have non secular beliefs relating to sexual abstinence?

I don’t denigrate the worth of intercourse in wholesome, mutually supportive relationships. However hooking up for the sake of intercourse? That’s a prescription for loneliness that transcends age and eras.

Mary Hamrick
Raleigh, N.C.

To the Editor:

Who would have guessed? After millenniums of societal limitations on intercourse, Magdalene J. Taylor has managed to make it sound like yet one more dreary social responsibility and “political assertion.”

Oh for the enjoyable of the Unhealthy Outdated Days.

Laurie Cherbonnier
Winnetka, Ailing.

To the Editor:

I can consider a number of methods to extend sexual exercise in our society: free and simply accessible contraception; efficient contraception strategies for males, to allow them to bear among the burden; secure, reasonably priced and out there abortion; elimination of penalties for ladies who take a profession break to boost the youngsters born of their sexual encounters; beneficiant parental go away insurance policies; cheap and simply out there baby care.

Additionally: High quality intercourse teaching programs in faculties, which would come with the way to devour pornography with out creating unrealistic expectations of the actual factor. An emphasis on mutual respect between companions who have interaction in sexual exercise. Lowering the cultural taboo with respect to frank dialogue about intercourse. On that final level, this essay was begin.

Helen Ogden
Pacific Grove, Calif.

To the Editor:

I can not agree with Magdalene J. Taylor that having intercourse is the reply to serving to remedy loneliness in our society in the present day. Our nation, and perhaps the world, is within the midst of a social revolution introduced on by things like expertise and the #MeToo motion.

Having intercourse with somebody , love and respect is an attractive factor. Having intercourse with somebody for the sake of delight may be conducive to nice loneliness.

Encouraging folks to affix others in actions reminiscent of a dance or swimming class or beginning a e book membership could be higher options. Others embrace taking over the ukulele and getting a canine.

Betsy Geraci
San Francisco

To the Editor:

Intercourse is like sugar, salt and spice. When added to the fitting components it makes abnormal meals thrilling and engaging. However by itself — not a lot.

Herbert Rakatansky
Windfall, R.I.

The Republicans’ Message to Independents

To the Editor:

Re “In Management of Home, Republicans Create Their Personal Gridlock” (information article, Feb. 14):

“Some Republicans from politically aggressive districts,” you report, are involved about “an extreme-right legislative agenda that can alienate essential voting teams, together with impartial voters.”

However impartial voters who supported supposedly average Republicans ought to have realized that in serving to the G.O.P. obtain a Home majority, they weren’t strengthening a temperate faction of the celebration; they have been empowering the extremists who management Republican politics.

There isn’t any significant place for moderation in a celebration that also helps insurrectionists, opposes voting rights, cozies as much as open antisemites and racists, and is at odds with a majority of Individuals on points from abortion rights to gun management to funding Social Safety.

The G.O.P.’s message to independents: Thanks for almost all. Moderation? No thanks.

Mitchell Zimmerman
Palo Alto, Calif.

To the Editor:

Re “World Financial institution President, Dogged by Local weather Questions, Will Depart a Yr Early” (Enterprise, Feb. 16):

Local weather change isn’t the one backdrop to David Malpass’s early exit from the World Financial institution’s prime place. The World Financial institution’s dedication to safeguarding the human rights of communities immediately affected by bank-sponsored initiatives has been woefully insufficient for a lot of the financial institution’s historical past, together with underneath Mr. Malpass’s management.

In our work, we’ve seen how World Financial institution initiatives cannot solely miss their growth objectives but in addition trigger social and environmental harms when communities aren’t concerned of their design and when initiatives don’t comply with the financial institution’s personal requirements. All too typically, we’ve additionally seen the World Financial institution refuse to take duty for hurt brought on by its initiatives.

In tackling a few of humanity’s most urgent crises, the following World Financial institution president have to be an accountability champion. Which means not solely respecting the rights of native communities, but in addition remedying hurt brought on by World Financial institution initiatives when it happens.

The World Financial institution can not transfer ahead with out first wanting again — and correcting what it sees.

Margaux Day
Washington
The author is coverage director at Accountability Counsel, which supplies authorized counsel to communities affected by internationally financed growth initiatives.

Latino Illustration in Hollywood

To the Editor:

Re “Wooing a Latin Star, Kardashian-Fashion,” by Maureen Dowd (column, Feb. 19), a couple of dialog with the actor John Leguizamo relating to Latino illustration:

I applaud Mr. Leguizamo’s well timed criticism of the main American leisure industries for excluding the tales of Latinas and Latinos from their reveals and productions.

Whether or not within the case of Broadway, Hollywood or the main TV and streaming platforms, the very fact of the matter is that the advanced lives of American Latinas and Latinos haven’t been adequately portrayed.

As a result of Latinx Individuals are the biggest ethnic minority, we’d like extra main performing roles for U.S. Latinx performers and extra wealthy tales that seize the love, disappointment, happiness, intellectuality, successes, tragedies and social lives of Latinas and Latinos all through America.

Now could be the time to do a greater job at representing U.S. Latinx communities within the nationwide media and past.

Alejandro Lugo
Park Forest, Ailing.
The author has taught anthropology and Latinx research for 3 many years at a number of universities.

Rewriting Roald Dahl

To the Editor:

Re “Books by Dahl Are Rewritten, Spurring Outcry” (Enterprise, Feb. 21):

Who’s subsequent on the revision/censorship record? I decry Roald Dahl’s antisemitism, however I’ll learn my decades-old signed copy of “Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility” to my still-infant grandson when he grows a bit.

And I’ll take him to see “The Service provider of Venice,” learn him some Ezra Pound poems and play him some Wagner CDs. He and I’ll ably sift the ugliness from the sweetness and separate the artwork from the artist in all kinds of artistic endeavors and literature and music. We don’t want anybody to defend us, so thanks however no due to fraidy-cat publishers.

Beth Z. Palubinsky
Philadelphia