Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love In A Hook-up World / Jennifer Roback Morse

Fear is at the heart of the sexual revolution-fear of other people, of relationships, of permanence-and its most fitting monument is the hook-up. Jennifer Roback Morse exposes the sexual revolution's fraudulent promise of freedom and points the way to the most thrilling adventure of all: life-long love. By the end of the twentieth century, most people had joined the once-radical sexual revolutionaries in embracing a pair of flawed ideas-that freedom means being unencumbered by relationships, and that sex is a purely private activity with no moral or social significance.

Morse shows how these ideas reduced sex to a commodity--consumer sex--and left millions of people miserable. Morse fearlessly explodes some of modern society's most cherished, and destructive, myths. She argues that reproductive freedom is an illusion, recreational sex isn't really fun, and sex is neither morally neutral nor essentially private. A practical book by a practical woman, Smart Sex is about why and how to stay married. It focuses on the nature and meaning of sex and marriage, leading the reader to an appreciation of the demanding yet rewarding commitments they require.

Jennifer Roback Morse is a renowned marriage and family scholar. She is the author of Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village and of numerous major academic and public-policy articles for journals ranging from the Journal of Economic History to Forbes, Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal.