The Triumph and Results of the Sexual Revolution (an article)

[mdgspencer]

This article in “The Catholic World Report” by a researcher and writer speaks of how the sexual revolution has had a global effect on human existence, and that its consequences are only beginning to be understood. At the end it speaks of the Catholic role on the debate on the matter.
see www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/1193/The_Partys_Over.aspx

 

[manualman]

SO true. Hardly anybody knows or comprehends the significance of the fact that EVERY SINGLE developed and politically stable country on earth in which contraception is socially acceptable and readily available (meaning you can buy it if you want it) has a below replacement total fertility rate among peoples born in that country.

Worse, other than an outlier year or two, no nation since the introduction of the pill that has completed the fertility drop transition has ever recovered back up to replacement rates of fertility.

UN population projections for the planet blithely ASSUME that fertility will return to replacement rates at some point, but they fail to make any coherent argument for what mechanisms will bring that about.

This planet has had a long population explosion, but we are well past the inflection point where the trend has turned towards the coming population implosion and associated economic collapse. Think today’s housing bust is bad? Wait until the population actually starts decreasing!

 

[JimG]

The effects of the sexual revolution have been devastating to society in so many ways–morally, economically, socially. The effects have been bad for women, bad for men, devastating for families, destructive to children, bad for the economy and the demographics of social programs, have devastated many lives.

The empirical evidence of this destructiveness has been piling up for decades. Mary Eberstadt outlines all this in her new book, “Adam and Eve After the Pill.” I just downloaded it to my Kindle yesterday and began reading it today.

This is stuff which has been apparent to anyone my age who has lived through these changes. It’s really apparent all around us. Yet a great many of the elite and the academics continue to stick their head in the sands in denial of the obvious.

For anyone who wishes to understand our current social situation, I recommend that book. It is important, and readable.

 

[Birdpreacher]

What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church?

1 Cor 5:12

 

[JimG]

In the introduction to her book, Mary Eberstadt refers to some earlier works on the subject of the family, includng Carle Zimmerman’s “Family and Civilization.” Here is a remarkable quote from that book, published in 1947

:“The United States will reach the final phase of a great family crisis between now (1947) and the last of the century”–one “identical in nature to the two previous crises in Greece and Rome.”

 

[OriginalJS]

In the introduction to her book, Mary Eberstadt refers to some earlier works on the subject of the family, includng Carle Zimmerman’s “Family and Civilization.” Here is a remarkable quote from that book, published in 1947

:“The United States will reach the final phase of a great family crisis between now (1947) and the last of the century”–one “identical in nature to the two previous crises in Greece and Rome.”

So, I guess whatever it is has happened. But, when and what were the two previous great family crises in Greece and Rome?

 

[JimG]

So, I guess whatever it is has happened. But, when and what were the two previous great family crises in Greece and Rome?

I should know the answer to that but I don’t! I even have the book “Family & Civilization.” I just haven’t read it yet. I’m presuming that some sort of breakdown in traditional families contributed to the decline of those cultures.

As an aside, I’ve heard that Rome in its declining days of empire was a thoroughly pornographic culture.

Mary Eberstadt’s book, though is more focused as a sociological account of the effects of the sexual revolution of the 20th century on our own culture.