...this is the first time in history there has been mass denial that sexual relations are a proper subject of moral reflection or need to be governed by moral restrictions...
...how many time I have heard from my patients of their aching desire to settle down and live in a normal family, and yet have no idea whatever how to achieve this goal that was once within reach of almost everyone!
...Thanks to the sexual revolution, current confusions are manifold. In a society that forms sexual liaisons with scarcely a thought, a passing suggestive remark can result in a lawsuit; the use of explicit sexual language is de riguer in literary circles, but medical journals fear to print the word "prostitute" and use the delicate euphemism "sex worker" instead...anxiety about the sexual abuse of children subsists with an utter indifference to the age of consent; compulsory sex education and free contraception have proved not incompatible with the termination of a third of all pregnancies in Britain and with unprecedented numbers of teenage pregnancies...Sexual liberty has led to an increase, not a diminution, in violence between the sexes, both by men and by women: for people rarely grant the object of their affection the freedom they claim and practise for themselves, with a consequent rise in mistrust and jealousy...The only permissible judgment in polite society is that no judgment is permissible.
Our Culture... p236-240
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