According to the Georgia Straight, one of our alt-weekly papers up here, the younger generation have apparently invented something they're calling "sex."



To do it, some variable number of people get together and they take off their clothes. And then - and I gather this is the critical step - they press various bits of themselves up against each other. It's all the rage among the smart young set. If you believe the papers, they're simply mad about it.

And it seems so simple. I'm told you can use modern plastics if you like, but they're not strictly necessary. It's really just simple Newtonian mechanics of the kind we've understood for years now. It makes one wonder why we didn't come up with it ourselves...