While we were watching TV, learning social media, worrying about the economy and reading romance novels, the sexual sewer pipe broke and has flooded the cultural landscape. Today, it is all but impossible to escape the media's in-your-face erotic images, news of scandals, and survey reports of the latest perversions.
What was once a private area of human life, limited by religious and social strictures, has burst its bounds. What was once a sensitive topic to be carefully introduced to the young by parents, has broken away and is now a subject in which even young kids are well-versed. What was once the subject of juicy rumors about the "fast kids" at school is now all out there on YouTube, magazines and even mainstream movies.
The shooting last month by an illegal immigrant of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who died in her father's arms on a San Francisco pier, has focused the nation's attention on so-called "sanctuary cities" — local jurisdictions that, as a matter of policy, refuse to comply with federal immigration law.
