Channel 4 plasters poster sites with Sex in the City. Time to simmer down. Sex in the City, after all the hype, lost nearly 1.6 million viewers between week one and week two. And it will go on losing week by week. Of course there's a market for porn, hard or soft.
Tides go out as well as race in.
There were the predictable headlines last week when the Journal of American Medicine interviewed 3,400 men and women aged between 18 and 59 - and found that 33 per cent of women and 40 per cent of men professed 'no interest' in sex. America turns over and goes to sleep. Kinsey squirms in his celestial double bed. But, in fact, the findings are all of a piece with the headlines that matter. Americans, through the last months of Bill Clinton's debacle, have not been turning on their televisions or racing to the newstand for every fresh revelation.