On Wednesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan discusses a recent admission by “Sex in the City” author Candace Bushnell that she regretes choosing her career over having children. Video and partial transcript below:
This is a story about Candace Bushnell. She’s now 60. But back in the ’80s, I guess it was ’80s and ’90s, she wrote “Sex in the City,” a column that later became the famous TV star series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. And the TV series — which I only saw once or twice, I kind of sampled it because it was such a big deal; it wasn’t something that I was interested in. But a lot of people [have] said, and I actually think this is true, that it was written by gay guys and it was actually not about four women. It was about four women fronting for the opinions of these gay guys. And some of the conversations about sex really did sound like gay guys and not like women talking about sex. But the point of this was the idea of really enjoying yourself, having sex, and being free to have the kind of sex you want. There was a romantic strain in it. People were looking for love. But there was this continual idea of sex not having a moral component. That in other words, if you had sex promiscuously, you were not violating any kind of a moral code.
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