![]() ![]() So, for example, the chapter titled “What Is the Sexual Revolution Doing to Men? Peter Pan and the Weight of Smut” is in fact primarily about pornography in general: not men in general, and not porn as it affects men. Chapter titles seem to come from a totally different book, one with a more programmatic approach. This book started as separate essays in places like Policy Review and First Things, and it shows. Instead, Adam and Eve reads like a travel guide for an unpleasant safari somewhere east of Eden, hitting a few major areas quickly and even somewhat randomly. It’s not really a big-picture book, despite a chapter in which contraception is revealed as the major villain. ![]() Unlike most books on contemporary sexual culture and its crises, Adam and Eve doesn’t have a plan to save the world. Mary Eberstadt’s slim new essay collection, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, may at first be more notable for what it doesn’t contain than for what it does. Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution ![]()
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