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I agree with what Pony and several others have said. Many of the comments (letters) lately, as well as discussions on Table Talk, have led me to the conclusion recently that Salon hasn't changed as much as the complaints suggest. Maybe its reader base is what has changed. Or maybe the cranky, humor-impaired voices are just getting louder. Every article about sex seems to bring on a torrent of these humorless complaints. On Table Talk, the Real Dolls piece is still coming up. It's just sex, people. You can't catch anything over the Internet, really.
Salon isn't where I expected to find a community of the humorless and puritanical. Frankly, if the "new" direction (which isn't all that new - Salon has always run sex stories) drives them away, all the better. I can get preachy, self-righteous, mean-spirited rants from the 700 Club.
I thought the piece was funny and well-written. Although I'm a parent, I'm not a former sex goddess and didn't feel any strong identification with the writer but I still enjoyed spending a couple of pages sharing her perspective and her sharp writing. That's the marker of a good personal essay.
