One hears often
that the “liberation” of the human libido began in earnest in the United States
in the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. Americans, troubled over repressive
attitudes toward human sexuality, hoped for a revolution that would free them
from outdated moral and social constraints. It resulted not in liberation but
in license and a host of societal sexual crises. Since the onset of the sexual
revolution, we have had to face an ever-increasing array of sexual problems. One
has only to think of the tremendous increase in the number of post-1960s
illegitimate births and abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, opposition to
censorship of pornography (especially on the Internet), and the resulting
sexual addiction (in some extreme instances resulting in murder). Consider too
the tremendous blows to marriage and the family done by adultery, the battle
over the homosexual lifestyle in the United States, Canada and Europe (now to
the point of the redefinition of marriage under the law); the increasing incidences
of sexual harassment, child pornography on the Internet, Internet predators,
date rape, and of course, the divorce rate. Recently Anthony Esolen of Firsts Things has written of the victims of this revolution in this sagacious piece....
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