Filed under: COUNTDOWN: 78 DAYS By Holly Anderson Jun 12, 2008, 4:30pm EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: COUNTDOWN: 78 DAYS Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.