The Sexual Revolution Backfires!

 

Mary Eberstadt has written in the Weekly Standard of 25 June 2018 about the sexual revolution, which took place in America and even around the world, fifty years ago. It has had dilatory effects on our culture. The manifestation of “free sex” pushed forward by the reform movement has caused five obvious consequences of this trendy way of thinking about sex roles:

First, the modern use of birth control pills has resulted, not in freedom and family health, but in increased frequency of divorce, cohabitation, and abortion never before seen in history.

Second, the limitation on family growth is leaving thousands of elderly people to live lives of loneliness and abandonment, because they have very few progenies to care for and pay attention to them as they age. The New York Times has reported 4000 deaths weekly of lonely old people without family support. In Japan, people are even being found dead in their apartments only after neighbors suspect something wrong after the odor of a decaying body alerts them.

Third, pornography is substituting for healthy sexual activity between married adults. This is leading to divorce and psychological damage.

Forth, the cheapening of sex among the population is causing an increase of sexually transmitted diseases and the perverted practice of egg donation for monetary profit to those who cannot conceive normally because of abnormal family arrangements or the results of sexually transmitted diseases.

Fifth, the MeToo movement has cropped up due to the widespread belief that women are available for sexual exploitation and dishonesty about their willingness for extramarital sex.

I would add to these five problems outlined by Ms. Eberstadt the fact that illicit sex is ruining the character of both men and women who are disappointed, disillusioned, and disheartened by unfulfilled and uncommitted sexual activity. Both the family and the personal character of men and women is suffering.

Furthermore, the sexual revolution is destroying and emasculating male character in men who take what they want sexually and deny the responsibility of supporting a wife and children. Instead of getting out of the house, working for a living, and supporting moral values, they stay at home on the couch watching TV sports, drinking, and even using illicit drugs to squelch their feelings of worthlessness.

The sexual revolution has not fulfilled the promises that women’s liberation said it would.