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Letters to the editor: March/April 2026

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

I was left unsatisfied and frustrated after reading Cathrin Bradbury’s “What is Sex?” (January/February). No mention was made that a healthy sex life relies on not just affection, attraction, and chemistry, but also intensity. As a heterosexual sixty-seven-year-old woman with a vibrant sex life, I believe sexual intercourse is reliant on getting to a point where you and your partner feel so close emotionally and physically that you lose your sense of individuality, sometimes your ability to speak, and meld into each other. Here is one quote about sex I have tacked to my cork board, from Northern Exposure, when Joel says to Maggie: “I always wanted more. Not frequency; I am not talking about frequency—although that would have been great, too. I wanted more intensity. I wanted to be out there, outside myself, outside my skin. I wanted sex to be like robbing life out of the jaws of death!” They are sitting outside in........

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