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SEXUAL UTOPIA IN POWER IBD

MINISTRY OF LOVE
11 / 2020
9781642641554
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Like many political revolutions, the sexual revolution of the 1960s began with a euphoric feeling of liberation. But when utopian programs clash with dissenters--and with reality itself--the result is chaos, which revolutionaries seek to quash with repression and terror. InáSexual Utopia in Power, F. Roger Devlin explores todayâÇÖs sexual dystopia, with its loose morals and confused sexual roles, its soaring rates of divorce, celibacy, and childlessness, and the increasingly arbitrary and punitive attempts to regulate and police it. Devlin shows that the breakdown of monogamy results in promiscuity for the few, loneliness for the majority, and unhappiness for all.Every revolution gives rise to a reaction. Devlin, however, is very critical of mainstream conservative responses to the sexual revolution, which often eerily echo feminist complaints about innocent women being preyed upon by wicked men who must be scolded and punished. The most controversial aspect of DevlinâÇÖs work is his argument that todayâÇÖs sexual dystopia is rooted just as much in womenâÇÖs nature as menâÇÖs, exploring such taboo topics as female hypergamy (mating up), narcissism, infidelity, deceptiveness, and masochism. By showing their biological basis, F. Roger Devlin offers a non-traditional defense of traditional sexual morals and institutions and shows us the way out of todayâÇÖs sexual dystopia.

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