Society is awash in every sexual perversion imaginable

From: Philadelphia Tribune, The | Date: May 9, 1997 | Copyright information


Philadelphia Tribune, The

05-09-1997

Society is awash in every sexual perversion imaginable

It has been said that nobody's having sex except children -- and their parents. Which is to say that almost everybody is having sex.

But things have gotten so cock-eyed that instead of almost everybody having sex, sex is having almost everybody. In the totally pernicious confusion of it all, today's high crimes include parents having sex with their own children....

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