On the surface, it seems American culture is obsessed with sex, but the kind that sells is more about separation than intimacy.
“It represents the lowest level of human engagement,” writes John Walsh. “It emphasizes the mechanical, athletic side of attraction and downgrades, or makes redundant, the emotional, tender, quirkily personal territory of relationship that makes us most vulnerably human.”
And the results are in: Psychologists say loneliness is the most common problem they deal with in the United States. Depression runs a close second.
We are a people in need of connection.
We are a people in need of connection.