{"id":75136,"date":"2022-07-22T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75136"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:14:36","slug":"sexual-liberation-to-sexual-revolution-to-todays-sexual-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/07\/22\/sexual-liberation-to-sexual-revolution-to-todays-sexual-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual liberation to sexual revolution to &#8230; today&#8217;s sexual desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/recalculating\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Bray<\/a> thinks that the sexual revolution &#8220;missed a turn, somewhere out in the desert&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The discussion of <em>what we didn&#8217;t mean to do<\/em> is becoming an interesting one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/againstgroomers\/status\/1548812576594837505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-12-05-02-Recalculating.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"806\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-12-05-02-Recalculating.png 375w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-12-05-02-Recalculating-279x600.png 279w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-12-05-02-Recalculating-298x640.png 298w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-12-05-02-Recalculating-70x150.png 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After decades of sexual liberation \u2014 Mattachine, Stonewall, <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em>, <em>Griswold v. Connecticut<\/em>, Second Wave feminism and the Sexual Revolution, <em>Lawrence v. Texas<\/em>, <em>Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em>, and whatever else I&#8217;m missing in there (and I&#8217;m not sure <em>Roe<\/em> belongs on the list, but maybe) \u2014 we somehow arrive at a moment in which we merge a sexualized display of childhood and a relentless media-driven commodification of sexuality with the very clear reality that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2022\/03\/31\/sex-decline-americans\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nobody&#8217;s having any sex<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>One of the most comprehensive sex studies to date \u2014 the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior \u2014 found evidence of declines in all types of partnered sexual activity in the U.S. Over the course of the study from 2009 to 2018, those surveyed reported declines in penile-vaginal intercourse, anal sex and partnered masturbation &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Over the last 22 years, Herbenick has co-authored several studies about our sexual activity. Her most recent research finds that all of us, regardless of age, are having less sex, with the most dramatic decline among teenagers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the start of the study in 2009, 79% of those ages 14 to 17, revealed they were not having sex. By 2018, that number rose to 89%.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Liberation stabbed pleasure in the heart; we <em>emptied<\/em> sex. Hypersexualization turns out to be desexualization. The unrelenting joylessness and death odor of contemporary sexual culture emerges from seventy years of growing openness and freedom. How? <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way to fully cover a question of that scope in a single post \u2014 but I refer, as a start, to the earlier posts I wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/childhood-made-and-unmade\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexualization of childhood<\/a> and the way Jim Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/jim-jones-was-normal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used sex as a weapon<\/a>. Breaking barriers and repressive anchors broke connections and reference points: Yes, some people were trapped in oppressive societal norms, and it&#8217;s not at all my view that all the sexual liberation in our past wasn&#8217;t really liberating. But we broke marriage to set people free, and whoops. Some people experienced bourgeois heteronormativity as a prison, and so set out to release everybody from their cages, which seem to have <em>not been cages<\/em> for a whole lot of people. Congratulations, we&#8217;ve freed you from being part of a family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bray thinks that the sexual revolution &#8220;missed a turn, somewhere out in the desert&#8221;: The discussion of what we didn&#8217;t mean to do is becoming an interesting one: After decades of sexual liberation \u2014 Mattachine, Stonewall, Loving v. Virginia, Griswold v. Connecticut, Second Wave feminism and the Sexual Revolution, Lawrence v. Texas, Obergefell v. 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