Unfortunately, Freud’s idea that sexual freedom would produce happiness does not seem to be working. Despite the sexual revolution, people are not happier or better adjusted. Instead, the quest for personal satisfaction through sex has brought with it skyrocketing rates of STDs and an epidemic of depression among sexually active young women, teenage pregnancies, and out-of-wedlock births and the accompanying single-parent households (which is the single biggest predictor of poverty in the United States).
