https://forgeover.com/tags/erica-jong/ Recent content in Erica Jong on Forgeover Hugo en-us Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:58:55 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/social/parents-have-hot-sex-too/ Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:41:36 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/social/parents-have-hot-sex-too/ <h2 id="mom-you-might-want-to-give-this-one-a-skip">Mom, you might want to give this one a skip…</h2> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/opinion/sunday/10sex.html?_r=1">Erica Jong</a> does not speak for us. She doesn&rsquo;t speak for many of the families I know, and those parents that she does speak of may want to distance themselves from her vitriolic rhetoric. That said, this post is not a critique (per se) of her &ldquo;Is Sex Passé&rdquo; article. What I hope it will be is a wake-up call to our generation. Erica Jong was reflecting a secretly but widely held belief that many of my peers either struggle against, or become oppressed by; that sex after marriage, and more specifically sex after kids, is bound to be less steamy, less intense, less fulfilling, and less adventurous.</p>