How the Media Deal With Sex

In response to David Shaw’s two-part series “The Press and Sex,” front page, Aug. 18-19:

The articles on sexuality and the press intrigued me. There appears to be a need for the press to use sexuality as a form of humiliation. The press can instantly destroy a person’s reputation because of his/her sexuality. The press becomes an arbiter of moral codes expressed by religious institutions.

We need the press to bring news to us. Exposure of one’s sexuality ordinarily serves no purpose, except to indulge our own voyeuristic curiosities.

ARNOLD L. GILBERG, MD, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine