Michel Houellebecq's blend of anomie, Stalinism, sexual hedonism, sensory-deprivation and reported homophobia is full of contradictions (Emily Eakin, Sept. 10).

The hippie period was prime time for the women's movement, for sexual hedonism and for platform soles.

Researchers say that DFSA is not a crime of physical violence: it is a crime of sexual hedonism and entitlement.

Emotions of the heart mingled with sexual hedonism of the body.

Developed by Crow, Pope & Land Enterprises in the early 1970s, Riverbend was one of the 1970s Atlanta's most notorious landmarks of sexual hedonism.

The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions 'for social reasons' were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour.

Instead of defending Mr. Bush's military service, The Drudge Report rushed to brand Mr. Kerry with another trait associated with 60's antiwar counterculture: sexual hedonism.

Bindel has described female bisexuality as a "fashionable trend" being promoted due to "sexual hedonism" and broached the question of whether bisexuality even exists.

"Priestly abuse," he writes, "is invariably about unequal power relationships rather than sexual hedonism."