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It was discussed as a work attempting to explain the paradoxical outcomes of the sexual revolution, particularly the unintended consequences of the birth control pill.
Well this is why I've spent two books trying to explain these paradoxes. Books called Adam and Eve After the Pill and Adam and Eve After the Pill Revisited because it is a lot of paradoxical fallout.
— Episode: #698 - Mary Eberstadt - Did The Sexual R...
Episode: #698 - Mary Eberstadt - Did The Sexual Revolution...
It was discussed as a work attempting to explain the paradoxical outcomes of the sexual revolution, particularly the unintended consequences of the birth control pill.
Well this is why I've spent two books trying to explain these paradoxes. Books called Adam and Eve After the Pill and Adam and Eve After the Pill Revisited because it is a lot of paradoxical fallout.
and I think that's important to establish because this kind of talk about what happened after the birth control pill what did the sexual revolution really do tends to get confined to a religious ghetto.
but essentially what contraception does is make pregnancy a woman's problem and this is the big cultural change that we see.
I rely here on the work of a sociologist named Lionel Tiger who wrote a book in 1999 called The Decline of Males and once again Tiger is not a religious thinker, he even said that he regarded religion as toxic
In one chapter of one of my books I go through the music of the 1990s for example when Eminem is the big bad boy rap superstar.