From the archive, three articles by Darel E. Paul on phenomena downstream of the sexual revolution: abortion, drag queens, and fertility declines.
PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
H. W. Longfellow
What happened after the sexual revolution? From the archive, Darel E. Paul reflects on the weirdness and badness that has infected public life through class-segregated abortion, drag queens, and feminist infertility.
Though the wealthy and the highly educated support and agitate for open access to abortion, poor and working-class women are the most likely to actually procure one.
Women’s “no” to lifelong socially binding care relationships is self-reinforcing. It exacerbates the gender funk, which in turn further lessens the appeal of the old patterns of intimate life.
