Whoo hoo!

Our favorite writer, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, has done the impossible in a new essay – taken on sex in Colombia as a struggle for democracy. A perfect topic for Publius Pundit to link, so go see what he’s written here.

In Colombia, young women have told their young men to drop the gangster and gun and drug crap or else they’ll get no sex from them. Apparently, it’s very primal and effective, for a society at its wit’s end. Yep, no sex, those who can’t drop their barbarian activity can be laughed at by their peers as maricones or become frequenter of the whorehouses or something but they won’t get any of the good stuff if they can’t stop engaging in gang and drug activity. After all, the latter makes life such a plague for women and children, one can see the primal logic of it all. Instead, only the productive and peaceable will get some. It’s a perfect example of civil society trumping brute force, Vargas LLosa argues.

It’s one of his most original and wonderful essays. Check it out here.