Excerpt of a Washington Times compelling book review by Claire Gillen:
The children of divorced or fatherless homes suffer lower emotional, behavioral, financial, educational and other outcomes than those in two-parent households. Similarly, women suffer more directly from the effects of divorce, abortion and other behaviors that the sexual revolution normalized.
While Mrs. Eberstadt marshals strong empirical evidence to support her case, she also takes cultural evidence seriously. For example, she draws on examples in popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan, which illustrate “sexual doublespeak” by revealing “a wildly contradictory mix of chatter about how wonderful it is that women are now all liberated for sexual fun - and how mysteriously impossible it has become to find a good, steady, committed boyfriend at the same time.”
Likewise, Mrs. Eberstadt analyzes articles on marriage in Atlantic, Time and other high-profile publications. The sexual dissatisfaction that afflicts many modern marriages introduces Mrs. Eberstadt’s discussion of the effects of the sexual revolution on men, seen most troublingly in the rise of what University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist Mary Ann Layden has termed “sexual obesity” - rampant pornography use, rising average counts of sexual partners and riskier sexual behaviors.
Read the full review on the human costs of the sexual liberation.
To purchase this must-read, liberating book, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, click here.
The children of divorced or fatherless homes suffer lower emotional, behavioral, financial, educational and other outcomes than those in two-parent households. Similarly, women suffer more directly from the effects of divorce, abortion and other behaviors that the sexual revolution normalized.
While Mrs. Eberstadt marshals strong empirical evidence to support her case, she also takes cultural evidence seriously. For example, she draws on examples in popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan, which illustrate “sexual doublespeak” by revealing “a wildly contradictory mix of chatter about how wonderful it is that women are now all liberated for sexual fun - and how mysteriously impossible it has become to find a good, steady, committed boyfriend at the same time.”
Likewise, Mrs. Eberstadt analyzes articles on marriage in Atlantic, Time and other high-profile publications. The sexual dissatisfaction that afflicts many modern marriages introduces Mrs. Eberstadt’s discussion of the effects of the sexual revolution on men, seen most troublingly in the rise of what University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist Mary Ann Layden has termed “sexual obesity” - rampant pornography use, rising average counts of sexual partners and riskier sexual behaviors.
Read the full review on the human costs of the sexual liberation.
To purchase this must-read, liberating book, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, click here.
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