Holden & Phoebe Sgt. X & Esme Seymour & Sybil In my reading, sexuality is ambigously on the horizon of the above character relationships but not foregrounded. I don't presume to know what went on between Joyce Maynard and Mr. Salinger, but it does seem to me that the characters above and their texts have a lot to say about love without saying much of anything about sex...