“Any human society,” wrote anthropologist J. D. Unwin, “is free to choose either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom. The evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation.”43 What is now called the Greatest Generation came of age in the Depression and World War II. It displayed great energy and gave America a position of unrivaled preeminence. The baby boomers and Gen-Xers, by and large, opted for “sexual freedom.” Soon we shall see if Unwin was right. The early returns suggest that he was, that the West will not survive its experiment in sexual liberation in
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