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Never Let a Good Trend Piece Get Undermined by the Absence of the Actual Trend

Tuesday, July 1st, 2003

From Slate’s “in other magazines” feature:

Newsweek tackles the former subject this week, with a groundbreaking scoop on married couples who don’t have sex. The cover story speculates that American marriages are increasingly sexless, citing as evidence the opinion of Dr. Phil and high sales figures for Avlimil, a new drug said to stimulate female desire. Trend pieces like this often include a caveat sentence, admitting that no one can verify whether the trend actually exists. Newsweek offers this doozyâ??”It’s difficult to say exactly how many of the 113 million married Americans are too exhausted or grumpy to get it on.”â??and then marches unabashedly forward with its anecdotal fluff.

I wonder what Stanley Kurtz thinks of sexless marriages? Are they good or bad for “the institution?”

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2 Responses to “Never Let a Good Trend Piece Get Undermined by the Absence of the Actual Trend”

  1. #1 |  Will |  July 2nd, 2003 at 1:01 am

    Ha…!

    Nice jab at Stanley Kurtz! (I’m a regular NRO reader)

    He’d probably say that sexless marriage promotes homosexuality among strait men since gay men are hell bent on polyamorous encounters.

    But I guess we’ll have to wait until “Massachusets” is decided to get his full frontal opinion on the matter.

    *Give Me Libido Or Give Me Death*

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