The sexual revolution and women’s liberation
What has been gained?
Thoughts for a Sunday morning
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has maintained that “the so-called ‘sexual revolution’ . . . destroyed the intrinsic connection between sex, marriage and child bearing and rearing. This was the first step in applying to the sexual realm the principle of relativism, i.e., defining reality the way I want it to be and imposing my idea of it onto nature, rather than the classical understanding that things have a nature of their own that we should seek to discover and understand.” This is a profound insight, one not frequently heard in Western societies at present, which deserves our reflection.
I would like to add a related thought. The emancipation of women since the 1960s and the ascent of individual women to positions of authority in Western institutions has not had positive social consequences. Political, economic, and social i…