Did The Sexual Revolution Actually Benefit Women? - Mary Eberstadt | Modern Wisdom 698
Mary Eberstadt is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and an author.
We're told that more freedom is a good thing. That the more options and choices a person has, the better their life will be. With this in mind, the sexual revolution should have been one of the biggest improvements ever for women and their quality of life, but all might not be quite as rosy as it seems.
Expect to learn who really benefitted from the sexual revolution, how the introduction of the pill increased the number of single mothers, where Mary thinks the newfound psychological fragility of young people is coming from, whether inventing hormonal birth control reduced or increased the number of abortions, why so many people are checking out of dating and much more...
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00:00 The Biggest Winners & Losers of the Sexual Revolution
03:07 Did the Pill Increase Abortions?
06:56 Would the Sexual Revolution Happen Without the Pill?
12:55 Did the Sexual Revolution Fail Children?
17:18 Feminism Is Failing Women
24:36 Why Young Girls Are Struggling
29:43 Advice to People Who Think Kids Are Restrictive
35:09 Interacting with the Other Sex in a Non-Sexual Way
40:02 Can Men & Women Work Together to Find a Better Way?
45:43 Society’s Disdain for Sexual Morality
50:29 How the Sexual Revolution Relates to Identity Politics
56:16 People Are Struggling & Need Sympathy
1:07:16 Where to Find Mary
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