BACK PAGE BETTIES? Perhaps you’ve noticed that the back pages of the Village Voice are home to sex columnists and sex advertisements (including what one comic has described as the progressive paper’s “Asian section”). What might it mean when two of the sex columnists, known for their kinkiness, confess to taking things down a notch or more? Rachel Kramer Bussel did so in her October 21 column; now Tristan Taormino expresses a loss of interest in public sex. Such admissions might not be sizzling, but I still find them daring.

Photo: David Marc Fischer