SPIRIT WOW 003: A CLUELESS MIDDLE-AGED PRIEST ON LEAVE TRIES TO LEARN ABOUT SEX

And it ain't pretty.

When Barbie came out a month ago, some criticized it for ending with Barbie—who has been allowed to become a real human being—going to a gynecologist. The argument, as I understand it, is that it reduced her to just a sex object, or life to being just about sex.

(I can’t believe anyone who saw the film actually thought that, but sure.)

Personally that scene, like a lot of the last half hour of Barbie, hit me hard. And there was kind of a good reason: One of the first things I did after I took a leave from the priesthood was to visit the Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic. And the experience was unexpectedly emotional.