Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics

by Dagmar Herzog

The Religious Right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evangelical Christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465002145
• ISBN13: 9780465002146
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book.

This is an enlightening look at the effects on our lives of the moral tightening around topics of sexuality that comes from the powerful religious right.

Excellent Book: -Interesting Read

This is an excellent book, -very interesting and illuminating. It's not simply `against' the right or overly partisan. The book takes a critical look at left and right political policy. -Very critical of the Clinton administration. It considers the new approach to sexuality on the right, which I think people on the right might find very valuable and insightful (if you can read outside a political orientation). Some elements of the book are speculative (it's on sexuality) or you might not agree with the conclusions of the author, but it's a well documented and well researched book. It also deals with many emerging factors (i.e. the growth of internet porn, sexual pharmacology...). I opens many issues worth consideration in a new and illuminating light.

Please Be Objective

Jeri Nevermind - actually I believe it is since abstinence only and other dishonest forms of sex education were instituted that the rate of unplanned pregnancies has risen so sharply. And part of actual sex education, as opposed to fearmongering and empty moralizing, would be to teach fathers responsibility, and women assertiveness (as opposed to obedience and "just saying no"). The very largest proportion of abortions, illegitimate children, etc. among my students are had by women from religious families, trained to obey men ("have sex with me!" "now abort the child, it is not convenient to me!" "but have this one, because God has told me you should!").