![]() The next battleground, if the revolutionaries manage to advance that far, would be the sexualization of childhood-which is in some sense underway. When sexual energy is not channelled towards marital monogamy, it is diffused uselessly outwards.Ī key question, however, is whether the Sexual Revolution has run its course (as Dan Hitchens recently theorized in First Things) or whether we are about to see it advance further. The creative lethargy and cultural listlessness Douthat describes, if you believe Unwin’s theory, is at least in part a result of the immense amount of energy being expended on sexual endeavours (be they digital or physical). His thesis adds insight to Ross Douthat’s in The Decadent Society, in which Douthat analyzes the interlocking layers of cultural sclerosis that have produced our political gridlock, polarization, and Weimar cosplay. Unwin’s study pre-dates the Sexual Revolution but still serves as a powerful predictor. Once this is lost, Unwin writes, the die is cast-the decline is irrevocable. In short-I’m currently working through his brick-sized tome now-the success of a society is, according to Unwin, directly tied to the sexual restraint they exercise. As a result, societies lose their cohesion as well as their purpose and drive. ![]() According to Unwin, these case studies prove that when cultures become wealthy, they correspondingly loosen their standards of sexual morality. Unwin published his mammoth magnum opus Sex and Culture, a study of 80 primitive tribes and six civilizations over five millennia.
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