In a stimulating essay (“The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral”) in today’s New York Times, Meg Wolitzer says she cannot imagine women like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor or the former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice having sex. This led me to thoughts I shouldn’t have had, of other people of either gender whom I cannot imagine likewise having sex—e.g., Golda Meir and Lyndon B. Johnson (too wrinkly); Michele Bachmann and Joan Crawford (too arch)); Mr. Rogers and Justin Bieber (too chipper); Pee Wee Herman and Conan O’Brien (too many uncoordinated limbs); Alan Cumming and John Boehner (in spite of their names); Barbara Bush and Queen Mum (evidence to the contrary); and, thank God, Pope Benedict XVI and Mother Teresa. So, who’s on your list? Excluding me, of course.
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I don’t have trouble imagining people having sex (sadly)… indeed, some of these pairs may have worked out… Bieber and the Pope? Bachman abusing Pee Wee? Barbara Bush and Joan Crawford sharing countless stangers? There’s a joke about a pearl necklace in there somewhere….
Maybe even imagining Mother Theresa after reading Christopher Hitchens irreverent book, The Missionary Position. But, as John said, “sadly.”