Granta 110

Whether you are starved of it or steeped in it;embarrassed by it or emboldened by it; whether you commit it or omit it, you can’t getaway from it. In this issue of Granta we talkabout sex.Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we’vebeen doing it, it has been used as a mark of declineand a measure of progress. It has been at the centreof rituals and responsible for revolutions. We makemoney from it, hide behind it, prohibit and promoteit. It relaxes us, revolts us, hurts us and helps us.But whatever we think about it, however we do it, itdefines us.