The Sexes: Sex& Tennis

"You can almost watch a couple play mixed doubles and know whether they should stay together."

Dr. Herbert Hendin Psychiatrist, Columbia University

This Labor Day weekend all across the land, in nearly unimaginable numbers, Americans will be hard at work, puffing and stroking and grinding their teeth as they enjoy a game that seems to consist of swatting fuzz-covered rubber balls across a net. For some years now, this phenomenon has been comfortably referred to as the tennis boom. But the phrase simply no longer serves to...

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