The Thrill of the Chaste

Former rock groupie turned Catholic author-blogger Dawn Eden has an article, Casual Sex Is a Con, in the The Sunday Times:

The Sixties generation thought everything should be free. But only a few decades later the hippies were selling water at rock festivals for $5 a bottle. But for me the price of “free love” was even higher.

I sacrificed what should have been the best years of my life for the black lie of free love. All the sex I ever had — and I had more than my fair share — far from bringing me the lasting relationship I sought, only made marriage a more distant prospect.

And I am not alone. Count me among the dissatisfied daughters of the sexual revolution, a new counterculture of women who are realising that casual sex is a con and are choosing to remain chaste instead.

She also writes: "The champions of the sexual revolution are cynical. They know in their tin hearts that casual sex doesn’t make women happy. That’s why they feel the need continually to promote it." It's worth reading the whole thing.

She is the author of the new book, The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On, and blogs at Dawn Patrol.

(HT: Denny Burk)