Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All

Victims of the Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurts Us All

Nathaniel Blake with a foreword by Ryan T. Anderson (Ignatius Press, $24.95, 229 pages)

In Victims of the Revolution, Nathaniel Blake of the Ethics and Public Policy Center condemns the Sexual Revolution and its aftermath, bringing the receipts as they say, to show the damage that it has done to untold numbers of victims. In five chapters Blake illustrates how sexual “liberation” led to greater loneliness, abortion-on-demand, the abolition of male and female, and the “wrong of gay rights,” and finally exploring whether the Sexual Revolution was actually liberating. The Sexual Revolution has totally infected our culture, from personal relationships (“the relational habits our culture inculcates are not conducive to getting and staying married”) to education (LGBTQ indoctrination at school) to the economy (with every perversity and whim catered to). The lessons of sex for satisfaction teach young men to use women as objects and young women to distrust men. Sexual culture “encourages short-term gratification and keeping one’s options open” which is a poor way to habituate men and women for the complimentary roles of husband and wife: “men and women are being formed not for each other but away from each other.”

The revolution is fundamentally a revolt against our biological realities: that the female body is made for reproduction, attacked by abortion and contraception, and that gender is intrinsically bound up in the biological reality of male and female, attacked by transgender ideology. The revolution turns reality on its head through its hostility to “the reality of human embodiment and the natural process of reproduction.” Sexual liberation, Blake argues, “requires abortion to ensure complete freedom from the unchosen constraints and duties of having children.” And once those natural constraints are broken down, the maniacal split of gender and sex would not long follow. There is a silver lining in the wreckage left by the revolution. Blake says, “the follies and failures of the sexual revolution provide an opening to evangelize those who have been injured and disillusioned by it” and that true liberation comes through “Christian moral teaching” on all matters related to sex and gender.

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