The Problem With Indoor Sex
11 February 2007
The Editor, New York Times Book Review
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Reviewer Elizabeth Royte reports that Jay Griffiths, author of Wild, is utterly contemptuous of modern society - including being angry at such apparently heinous cultural innovations as "indoor sex, maps, clean fingernails, golf ('greenery made stupid'), missionaries and the measurement of land, money or time" ("Nature Girl," Feb. 11).
I notice, though, from Ms. Royte's superb review that the British Ms. Griffiths experiences nature in "the Amazon, the Arctic, the Australian desert, the mountains of West Papua and on the Indonesian seas." I wonder: does Ms. Griffiths walk, swim, or take a wooden raft from one of these exotic locations to the next? If not, perhaps she should temper her contempt for those of us who clean our nails and make love indoors and thank us for the airplanes, automobiles, vaccines and many other products that make possible her trips to the wilderness.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
The Editor, New York Times Book Review
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Reviewer Elizabeth Royte reports that Jay Griffiths, author of Wild, is utterly contemptuous of modern society - including being angry at such apparently heinous cultural innovations as "indoor sex, maps, clean fingernails, golf ('greenery made stupid'), missionaries and the measurement of land, money or time" ("Nature Girl," Feb. 11).
I notice, though, from Ms. Royte's superb review that the British Ms. Griffiths experiences nature in "the Amazon, the Arctic, the Australian desert, the mountains of West Papua and on the Indonesian seas." I wonder: does Ms. Griffiths walk, swim, or take a wooden raft from one of these exotic locations to the next? If not, perhaps she should temper her contempt for those of us who clean our nails and make love indoors and thank us for the airplanes, automobiles, vaccines and many other products that make possible her trips to the wilderness.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Wednesday October 17, 2007 at 5:46pm