ABSTRACT
A clearer picture of American sexual morality emerged, following the fusillade of denunciations of the now infamous 1998 Starr Report as everything from puritanical witch-hunting to “sexual McCarthyism”. The American public by and large refuses to condemn homosexuality as sinful, and it certainly has even less interest in defining different kinds of sexual acts as criminal. Frigidity, the accusation of sexless womanhood has long since been superseded by impotence, the proof of failure of male will, suggesting something about the cultural triumph of feminism that has gone virtually unremarked. The vanguard movements for sexual liberation of the masses have succeeded in creating the likes of Monica Lewinsky, neither pitied nor respected. Of course, there is supposed to be in our present insights about “healthy sexuality” nothing wrong with masturbation, but Clinton did not, after all, appear too close by when Joycelyn Elders was forced to resign for too openly defending it as good fun and healthy sport.
