television came the extension of the sense of touch or of sense 
interplay that even more intimately involves the entire 
sensorium.

     The child and the teenager understand the telephone, 
embracing the cord and the ear-mike as if they were beloved 
pets. What we call “the French phone,” the union of mouthpiece 
and earphone in a single instrument, is a significant indication 
of the French liaison of the senses that English-speaking people 
keep firmly separate. French is “the language of love” just 
because it unites voice and ear in an especially close way, as 
does the telephone. So it is quite natural to kiss via phone, but 
not easy to visualize while phoning.

     No more unexpected social result of the telephone has 
been observed than its elimination of the red-light district and