Tired of the Titillating Times?

As I pointed out here, last week, the LA Times ran an article on women who were choosing to have plastic surgery performed on their private parts.

Last month, we had this story on a "burlesque queen and fetishist" who had, the Times informed us, "become fashion's 'It' girl."

And now, today, there's this piece on the sex lives of older women, referencing "spanking" and "anal sex."

Don't get me wrong -- I'm absolutely delighted to know that "older women like sex," as the article's subhead triumphantly informs us. I'm just not sure why that fact needs to be splayed all over the front of the Calendar section, just as the burlesque queen/fetishist story was; the plastic surgery was the health section's prominently placed lead article.

Who knew that one would need to exercise caution in exposing children of tender age to a major metropolitan daily -- because of its sexual overtones?