The Sexual Revolution: Cause of a New Secularist Faith?
By Josiah Hasbroeck, Juicy Ecumenism.
The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s is often portrayed in a positive light, hailed as bringing many benefits for society, especially women. One leading conservative scholar, however, is skeptical of this portrayal. The Sexual Revolution, Mary Eberstadt says, has instead caused deep societal problems and even led to a “new secularist faith.”
On May 18, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosted Eberstadt, Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center and Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute, at AEI’s headquarters in Washington for a discussion with AEI President Robert Doar about Eberstadt’s new book Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisted.
Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisted follows Eberstadt’s 2013 book of a nearly identical name, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution. In her conversation with Doar, Eberstadt highlighted a speech by James Q. Wilson at AEI as an inspiration for these books, particularly Wilson’s claim that, as Eberstadt summarizes, “the best predictor for good or bad outcomes for kids was family stability.” This prompted Eberstadt to write her first Adam and Eve book, in which she “took a microscopic look at what had happened since the Sexual Revolution; what had happened to men, to women, to children, to general social morays.” One example Eberstadt mentioned at AEI was her discussion of a study on “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness” since the Sexual Revolution.
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