In February, America’s most prominent conservative activist declared his opposition to having sex for fun.
In a post on X, the “anti-woke” crusader Christopher Rufo wrote, “‘Recreational sex’ is a large part of the reason we have so many single-mother households, which drives poverty, crime, and dysfunction. The point of sex is to create children—this is natural, normal, and good.”
Much gawking at Rufo’s grimly utilitarian take on sex ensued. Yet the firestorm largely ignored the woman whose anti-birth-control tirade had ignited it.
Rufo’s remarks were sparked by a video of a 2023 Heritage Foundation panel. In that clip, a bespectacled British woman details the supposed ravages of both oral contraception and the sexual culture that it birthed. She claims that the normalization of birth control has condemned women to higher rates of mental illness while offering them little in recompense beyond the freedom to endure “loveless and sometimes extremely degrading” […]
What a great article! It surveyed themes I would not have previously considered. Many of these themes are worth consideration far beyond the article. Although the ideas these feminists discuss support conservative’s philosophy, it makes them all the more intriguing as they do not rely upon Christian Theology and must stand or fall on their own merit. I have long thought, for example, that the critique put forward regarding a toxic dating culture fostered by on line sites is profoundly harmful, it was refreshing to hear this from another view point. I will have to delve deeper into the works cited in the article. There is a voluntary self-discipline focus here which has much to recommend it vs. the governmentally imposed blanket restrictions favored by the right. I suspect these authors may have much to teach us.