The Relevance of Sex in a City That’s Changed: “Tonight Sex and the City begins its fifth season on HBO in a world solemnized by terrorism and, apparently, newly appreciative of the joys of marriage. What does this mean for a show that has relied on an unending sense of youth and blitheness? Has Sex become irrelevant?” Who cares? Was it ever anything but an icon of frivolous decadence? This NY Times puffpiece describes a pitiful effort to exploit the new opportunities for poignancy in the post-9/11 City.