Erica Jong, who's nearly 70, would like you all to know that she's so much sexier than her daughter, who is 32.

Molly Jong-Fast will be 33 on August 19th, and Erica Jong, writing in the NYT, says that her daughter is "in her mid-30s." Ouch. Mom! That hurt. Let's take a closer look at that mother-daughter relationship. Jong prattles on, purportedly revealing what young people think about sex but really revealing how she, an aging woman, looks at young women:

Daughters always want to be different from their mothers. If their mothers discovered free sex, then they want to rediscover monogamy. My daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, who is in her mid-30s, wrote an essay called “They Had Sex So I Didn’t Have To.” Her friend Julie Klam wrote “Let’s Not Talk About Sex.” 

Klam! What a great name — an aptonym — for a woman who doesn't want to talk and specifically wants to close off the topic of sex!

The novelist Elisa Albert said: “Sex is overexposed. It needs to take a vacation, turn off its phone, get off the grid.” Meg Wolitzer, author of “The Uncoupling,” a fictional retelling of “Lysistrata,” described “a kind of background chatter about women losing interest in sex.” Min Jin Lee, a contributor to [Jong's] anthology, suggested that “for cosmopolitan singles, sex with intimacy appears to be neither the norm nor the objective.”

Generalizing about cultural trends is tricky, but everywhere there are signs that sex has lost its frisson of freedom....

Not only did we fail to corrupt our daughters, but we gave them a sterile way to have sex, electronically....

Jong thinks young women use the internet for "simulated sex without intimacy."  Jong was famous in her youth for seeking actual in-person sex without intimacy . Or... no, she wasn't! She was famous for writing about seeking actual in-person sex without intimacy. Writing... reading... hello? That's a simulation. On the internet, women find actual real partners and then meet them in person. How many women are just hanging out on porn sites? Men, maybe, but Jong purports to tell us about young women. And Jong's evidence is what other women writers are writing. These are the writers, the simulators. What are other young women doing, the one's who aren't cogitating and regurgitating cogitations?

Just as the watchword of my generation was freedom, that of my daughter’s generation seems to be control....

In this intergenerational battle, who is the real control freak?

The backlash against sex has lasted longer than the sexual revolution itself. Both birth control and abortion are under attack in many states...

Lust for control fuels our current obsession with the deficit, our rejection of passion, our undoing of women’s rights....

Now, she's all over the place. I think it's funny that she made "control" a big theme, then mentioned "birth control" and didn't notice the irony. Birth control... why not say the feminists who wanted to control birth were the ones obsessed with control?

The ultimate in control is determining the things that will be controlled and the things that will be kept uncontrolled. Can we talk honestly about that? After you've finished preening over how free you are about the things that you like to be free about?