It’s all about the obvious

This just in – nine out of 10 Americans have had premarital sex! Men and women alike! Even people born in the 1940s! Who, as I recall, were all about making love, not war back in the day. Could it be that we have finally scientifically quantified why “The 40-year-old Virgin” was a mega-hit?

Anyone else as shocked, shocked, as I can tell you I am? Who could have possibility imagined such a thing?

So now what do we do with this information? Get the heck over ourselves and put sex in its proper place as just one aspect of the complex makeup of all human beings rather than the defining factor? Deal with young men and women openly about issues of the flesh and their possible emotional as well as physical consequences rather than demanding abstinence and ignorance? Accept the fact the pastor we loved dearly on Monday is the same guy after he’s outed on Tuesday and rearrange our thinking on the relative merits of “sin” rather than send the poor sap to re-education? Throw a baby shower for Mary Cheney?

Here’s hoping we can all get a grip over the festive holiday season and greet each other with mutual understanding in the new year.

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