Suicide Is Not the Media's Fault  Last Friday, the Tampa Bay
Times published a nuanced and heartbreaking feature story about
Gretchen Molannen, a 39 year-old Florida woman with a condition
known as "persistent genital arousal." Molannen described how
her condition—likened to constant, unceasing physical arousal
without any of the accompanying mental or emotional
arousal—forced her to masturbate for hours on end and virtually
destroyed her personal and professional life. The day after the
story was published, Molannen committed suicide. A local blogger
says the paper has "blood on its hands." It does not.  The Times
story, by Lenora LaPeter Anton, describes how Molannen was
unable to work, but denied disability. Her parents believed she
was a lazy failure. Sex became a painful ordeal for her. She was
unable to maintain relationships. She did not have the resources
to get the medical help she needed. She grew desperate and
depressed, and made two halfhearted, unsuccessful suicide
attempts. The Times read its st