Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.

