In 1948, Dr. Alfred Kinsey, along with other progressive academics, launched the effort to radically redefine human sexuality.

It was in that year that Dr. Kinsey, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, produced Sexual Behavior in the American Male, using dubious research methods at best, to set the stage for the sexual revolution of the 1960s and all the social pathologies that came with it. It, along with his 1953 report, Sexual Behavior in the American Female, became collectively known as the Kinsey Report.

In my new book, Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream (Fidelis, 2024), I examine how Kinsey, along with others such as Masters and Johnson, would inspire the work of Hugh Hefner and the explosive growth of the pornography industry.

Carl Trueman put it best when he wrote, “In short, the tradition of seeing the world as driven by sex that Kinsey’s reports inaugurate is responsible for the fact that we now see the world drive by sex.”

Another factor that led to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. As Yuval Levin writes in his book, The Fractured Republic:

“Ultimately, the sexual revolution … was surely the most culturally transformative of all waves of change, liberation, and individualism that swept over American life in the postwar era and in one way or another it was connected to all the others. In a time of rapid technological process in many arenas, no technology was as transformative as the birth control pill.”

Like Kinsey’s research, the behind-the-scenes work on the birth control pill, as I chronicle in my book, was based on deceit as well. Former Wall Street Journal reported Jonathan Eig noted that four individuals –Margaret Sanger, Gregory Pinkus, John Rock, and Katharine McCormick – engaged in a lot of subterfuge to lie about the intentions for developing the pill because it would have resulted in a moral outrage that would have shut down their “experiments.”

But this has been a modus operandi of progressives on nearly every issue – whether it is abortion or same-sex marriage, to deny or lie about their actions or intentions to lull the public to sleep while quietly implementing their agenda behind the scenes.

It is this deceit that led to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and which continues to be practiced today to advance progressive sexual agendas.

And this deceit led to scores of victims – in particular women.

This was pointed out by Professor Bruce Wydick, an economist at the University of San Francisco, in an interview with my good friend and colleague Glenn Stanton with Focus on the Family.

Professor Wydick commented, “The revolution that brought sexual freedom allowed women to unwittingly undercut each other in the competition for men, providing men greater access to more sex for lower and lower levels of commitment, to the obvious benefit of men. Women’s sexual freedom became the greatest thing that ever happened to men who wanted as much sex as possible with as little commitment as possible, and hence made women much worse off.”

It also made women more dependent on the government to pay for the children that resulted when the pill failed while creating generations of men who didn’t have to grow up and take responsibility as a husband and father because their sexual urges could be met without ever making any real commitment.

All these factors laid the groundwork for the sexual revolution of the 1960s. It did not just happen overnight. The social earthquake of the 1960s was created by all these individuals – an earthquake of such seismic proportions that America is still dealing with damage sixty years later.

I hope that my book will bring clarity to while exposing the lies thrust upon us in the 1960s so we can turn back from the cultural dead-end road in which we presently find ourselves. This is just the first step in the process – understanding the past so we can pave a new road to the future – but it is a step we can still take if we dedicate ourselves to the effort to reverse and repair the societal damage inflicted upon us by those who launched the 1960s sexual revolution.

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