The sexual revolution in the Western world that began in the 1960s has entered a new phase.
Just as other kinds of objective reality - truth, morality, aesthetics, religion - have been drawn into the black hole of subjectivity, now it is happening to sex. First, sex was divorced from marriage; now, it is not even necessary to have a partner at all.
In contemporary culture, sex has become largely a matter of the imagination. In just a few short years, pornography has exploded in popularity and has found its way into American homes, video monitors and computers in an unprecedented bid at being considered normal and respectable. This new voyeurism is symptomatic of a wider mindset, a culture of self-gratification and self-abuse.
