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When it was revealed in April that Netflix had lost 200,000 subscribers during the first quarter of 2022, its stock nosedived, and worse was expected to come: Netflix itself projected a loss of a staggering two million more subscribers by the end of June. At that point, it looked as if the streaming giant might actually have awakened to the economic cost of wokeness, explicitly rejecting the cancel culture ethos in telling employees: “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.” But don’t get the idea that Netflix has utterly forsaken the cause of cultural decay and degradation: it is gearing up for another assault on the sexual mores, morality, and sensibilities of Americans with its new home makeover series, How to Build a Sex Room.
It’s “definitely not your typical home makeover series,” gushes People magazine with admirable understatement. How to Build a Sex Room, which is set to premiere on July 8, is “all about renovating sumptuous spaces that are all about intimacy.” Neither Netflix nor People say so, but these “sumptuous spaces” are all about late Roman Empire-style cultural decay as well. All the while I was growing up, my family never had, and I never knew any people who had, a “sex room” in their house. Did you? Did anyone?
But as far as Netflix and People and their target audience are concerned, that omission was a manifestation not of modesty and properly ordered societal values, but of a stultifying prudery that must be decisively and resoundingly rejected. Interior designer Melanie Rose, the host of How To Build A Sex Room, says: “When people hear the words ‘sex rooms,’ they concentrate on the word ‘sex.’ And that connotes ‘dirty,’ ‘disgusting.’ Sex rooms are not disgusting.”
