Sex In The Middle of the Road

This morning I read an article about the efforts of some Christian groups to get further federal support for programs that encourage celibacy. I really can't figure out who has done more damage: the neo puritans who make sex dirty outside of their carefully perscribed parameters, or the purveyors of our soft porn consumer culture who have made sex so very un sexy. Its odd, we are definetly a sex infatuated culture. We are infatuated with having it (often in some highly stylized way) or telling other people not to have it (mostly in some highly pious way). The lack of a middle ground does not bode well.