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We built a world that bombards our teens with sex. [The entertainment media] saturate them with the message that great and frequent sex is key to status and satisfaction and that all things sexual are possible—indeed, expectable. The images convey a sexuality that is more virtual than real, more impersonal than personal, more available on demand than negotiated by consent. They emphasize superficial pleasure over the deeper and more enduring meanings of intimacy, tenderness, connection, and even procreation 1 In the same year, J. Budziszewski wrote an article for Touchstone Magazine entitled, “Designed for Sex”. He, like O’Connell, laments the damage that his generation incurred on Western society: “My generation may have ordered the sexual revolution; theirs is paying the price. ” Also, like O’Connell, he sees the main problem as a distortion or total ignorance of the meaning of sex: …we’re not designed for hooking up…we’re designed for our bodies and hearts to work together. We human beings really do have a design, and I mean that literally— not just a biological design, but an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual design. The human design is the meaning of the ancient expression ‘human nature’. Some ways of living comport with our design. Others don’t