It Really Is About ‘Sex’

Unlike most of the so-called adult programming cable TV offers, “Sex and the City” actually is about sex: the complications, the vulnerability and the messiness (“An Outrageous Voice of Sex and the City,” by Paul Brownfield, Sept. 6).

The most remarkable and groundbreaking aspect of the series has been its ability to reintroduce the human touch to sex on TV. Who would have guessed that a show widely known for its raunch content would, in recent episodes, provide television’s most honest and affecting depiction of the pain of adultery?

Daytime talk (freak) shows and “mainstream” entertainments like “Blind Date” present bed-hopping and promiscuous sex as harmless, voyeuristic kicks. “Sex and the City” makes us laugh while never once ignoring the fact that sex is an adult act of intimacy and emotional consequence.

KEN ANDERSON

Los Angeles

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It’s none of my business whether Michael Patrick King, executive producer of “Sex and the City,” is gay, and I take him at his word that he’s not intentionally injecting his show with “a gay sensibility,” whatever that is.

But I’ve always had an uneasy feeling that his flamboyant leading characters, with their relentless pursuit of promiscuous sex and constant gossip about “male genitalia,” are not four career women but a quartet of transvestites.

AL RAMRUS

Pacific Palisades