SEVERAL READERS have sent me links to this essay by Richard Corliss in Time, whose theme boils down to “porn was better when I was younger.”

But the most devastating take comes from the not-safe-for-work Erosblog, which observes:

The image instantly summoned in my mind is one of pity for the hypothetical wife or girlfriend of Time columnist Richard Corliss, who wrote that last squalid sentence.

Horny travelling men who don’t “summon a call girl” must be “too tired, timid or cheap”, eh?

It must surely suck to be married to that man.

Ouch. And how sad is it, really, to have to be brought up short on the subject of fidelity by a guy named “Bacchus?”