Well, I prefer to think this author is serious on the subject of sex and public health.
I remember some time in the past, while living in a housing estate at Mount Druit, a neighbour confided to my wife at the time, how alarmed he'd become at the incest rampant on the housing estate.
He began to relate a very involved story to my wife, one which she found impossible to fathom. She requested the neighbour write out the story for her, so she could study the thread of it slowly in detail.
Coincidently, while cleaning out some old files in the corner of our garage in North Sydney, I came across the missel....

I was married to a widow, who was pretty as can be.This widow, had a grown-up daughter,who had hair of red. My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed. This made my dad my son-in-law, and really changed my life.

Now my daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad, and so became my uncle, though it made me very sad. For, if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother of the widow's grown up daughter, who was of course, my stepmother.

Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run, and he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.

My wife is now my mother's mother, because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.

Now, if my wife is my grandmother, I am her grandchild, and every time I think of it, heh! Nearly drives me wild.

Cause now I have become, the strangest case you ever saw, as husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpaw.

It really did, it happened just that way!

Dear Toni Lavis,

Onanism is not masturbation. Onanism is coitus interruptus. Onan, according to scripture, did not fulfill his obligation to impregnate his brother's widow but withdrew and spilled his seed upon the ground. One can appreciate the significance of the name by noting that Hebrew is written from right to left. Onan becomes Nano, and sperm are tiny.

Well, I for one read this as satire, phanto.

>>It is not satire. Satire at least makes a point and you know what the satirist is really trying to say. I for one have no idea what this author’s problem is.<<

The point that I imagined was being made, was that you could substitute "sex" with, for example, alcohol or smoking, and the treatise as a whole would be representative of every bureaucratic interference that we happy citizens suffer, every time the Department of Fun decides we are enjoying ourselves too much.

Every justification used in the article is entirely recognizable as one employed by the interfering busybodies who so lack a life of their own, they feel the need to prevent as many others as possible from any enjoyment whatsoever.

And the article has so little to do with sex itself, that many of the comments it has elicited are themselves just a little hilarious.

Hi Pericles,

Watching 'Utopia' last night, it struck me that what is desperately needed - before it is too late - is some sort of Organising Authority for Sexual Monitoring.

The tide of filth is washing around us - wherever one looks, one sees its influence. Even in our greatest monuments - what is the Sydney Harbour Bridge if not the covert depiction of a young woman's breast, recumbent ? The Sydney Tower ? That needs no lurid explanation. And as for the Opera House, the mind boggles.

And it's not confined to art or architecture - plumbers regularly talk disgustingly of male and female parts, and of nipples. Significant elements in maths include the sine and cosine curves, and bell curves, clearly designed to pervert young minds. Even fruit is grown, bananas, zucchinis and peaches for example, which have been secretly designed to resemble body parts. When will this depravity end ? When will decency raise its head ? How can we separate the twin smooth pillars of perversion and feverish delight ?

I'm not the only one. Already, in Hughenden, an Assembly for Restraint and Decorum has been holding preparatory meetings for some sort of national action, to protect our younger people from lives of pleasure and depravity.

I'm proposing to initiate People United against Sexual Harm - which all this is obviously doing - to help set up such an Organising Authority. Our combined slogan will be "PUSH HARD for OrgASM". I certainly hope that gets up and is spoken of enthusiastically in every bedroom in the country.

Pericles:

Perhaps you are right and it is satire but what is the point? What are we meant to discuss? What is the target of his ire?

There is already many posts seriously discussing sex policy but what if he is actually talking about drugs policy which would be in keeping with his bio? Surely, if you have an axe to grind and it was important enough to spend time writing an article you would make it clear what your problem was . Everyone seems to be trying to be constructive in their arguments but may be way off subject. Confusing your readers and wasting their time will not really endear them to your subject whatever it is.

If he is just having a whinge about the incompetence of bureaucracy in general then what does that achieve and what is he telling us that we do not already know?

Hi Joe Loudmouth

For a moment there I thought you were proposing People Undermine Sexual Satisfaction and Yodelling

But I'm glad you did not plunge in.