Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shifts Singles’ Attitudes Toward Sex, Dating
by Arthur Goldberg, The Daily Signal:
An unintended but interesting consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade has been a significant decrease in America’s “hookup” culture.
In the first year after the high court’s overturning of easy abortion access, 78% of surveyed singles indicated that the lack of federal abortion protections affected their sex and dating lives, according to the 13th annual study of 5,000 singles by Match Group, an internet and technology company that says it operates the largest number of global matchmaking platforms.
This year’s Match Group survey showed a marked increase, to 87%, in this change in sex and dating patterns. In fact, because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson in June 2022, 14% of those surveyed said they have less sex overall and decreased casual sex, while 1 in 10 chose to no longer engage in any sexual activity.
Moreover, USA Today reported that sex therapists say that since the overruling of Roe v. Wade, anxiety over premarital and extramarital sex has soared, causing their clients to reconsider sex, dating, and relationships.
The Match Work study thus provides insight on how secularists have begun to realize that the sexual liberation and ease of abortion access since the 1970s created confusion about stable intimate relationships, an intimacy confusion that effectively disconnected intimate sexual behavior from emotional bonding.
The 1960s and 1970s witnessed an incredible liberalization of our culture’s sexual mores. This growth in sexual activity, caused in part by the ease of access to abortion, also had the effect of increasing sexually transmitted diseases.
According to a 2003 study measuring abortion on demand’s effect on sexual behavior, “legalizing abortion provided extra incentives to engage in risky sexual behavior.”
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