Caduceus is a sex position which is also an abstraction that only exists in the present. It can’t be documented. It takes its name from the entwined snakes on the staff of Hermes. I talked to my mother on the phone about the recent article in the Atlantic Magazine about “the sex recession.” She said sex is going the way of the newspaper -- no one has time. She said that having the time to read a hard copy of the paper in bed is the same as having time to enjoy sex. Reading the news online is no substitute. I think of the William Carlos Williams line “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”