Modern Sex

The 1960s sexual revolution made a big promise: if we just let go of our inhibitions, we'll be happy and fulfilled. Yet sexual liberation has made us no happier and, if anything, less fulfilled. Why? These remarkable essays, drawn from the pages of the celebrated quarterly City Journal by its editor Myron Magnet, tackle the question head-on. As Modern Sex's authors show in moving and often eloquent detail, sex today is increasingly mechanical and without commitment_a department of plumbing, hygiene, or athletics rather than a private sphere for the creation of human meaning. The result: legions of unhappy adults and confused teenagers deprived of their innocence, on their way not to maturity but to disillusionment. As the reports in Modern Sex tell us, the beginning of wisdom lies often in realizing that what we are doing is not working, so that instead of doing more of the same we should be doing less. These beautifully written essays_on subjects ranging from the TV show Sex and the City to teen sex to the eclipse of the manly ideal to the benefits of marriage_add up to the deepest, most informative appraisal we have of how and why the sexual revolution has failed and how we might begin to reconstruct the relations between the sexes in ways that reconcile freedom with humanity.

ISBN 1566633842   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781566633840 (What's this?)   Pages 256 Publisher Ivan R Dee, Inc   Volumes 1 Imprint Ivan R Dee, Inc   Weight (grammes) 313 Format Paperback   Published in Chicago Publication date 26 Sep 2001   Height (mm) 222 Non-book description xiii, 221 p. ;   Width (mm) 170 Library of Congress HQ801.M63   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 306.7   Academic level General

		Introduction by Myron Magnet
		How We Mate by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead		15
		The "L" Word: Love as Taboo by Kay S. Hymowitz		27
		Sex, Sadness, and the City by Wendy Shalit		43
		All Sex, All the Time by Theodore Dalrymple		57
		Sex ED's Dead End by Wendy Shalit		77
		Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen by Kay S. Hymowitz		97
		What's Wrong with the Kids by Kay S. Hymowitz		117
		The Teen Mommy Track by Kay S. Hymowitz		130
		Feminists and their Enemies by Harry Stein		149
		Modern Manhood by Roger Scruton		166
		Bring Back Stigma by Roger Scruton		181
		Becoming a Family by Roger Scruton		196
		A Note on the Contributors		211
		Index		213

A compelling and original collection of essays...it deserves the widest possible audience.--Kevin White

 Be the first to write a customer review