If we are honest, Freud was touching on a significant truth: sex and sexual desires do shape who we are in fundamental ways. In short, we might perhaps say that human identity tilts in a sexual direction; and when external anchors of identity are weakened or even collapse, then the ideas of Freud, the availability of contraception, and the proliferation of easily accessible pornography can all find receptive soil in which to grow and make that tilt something obvious in the way our societies think and behave.
