Since the 1960s, Western societies have experienced a sexual transformation on a scale that few but a small selection of radicals foresaw.
Starting primarily in the United States, and spreading throughout the Western world, this became known as the sexual revolution or “sexual liberation”—though, in truth, there is nothing liberating about it. Sexual constraints that safeguarded society from high-risk behavior were jettisoned into the cultural aether and suffocated in an atmosphere of pure hedonism.
