Ideas don t only have consequences, they have companions.
Even as the bad news is that these notions rose and flourished together, the good news is that hints of their common fall are becoming discernible. As recently as 1989 the Centers for Disease Control found that 59 percent of high schoolers had had sex. A 23 percent drop in five years is notable, if not amazing. Women s sexual desires were as strong as men s, and if they weren t they ought to be. But gradually women began to realize it was a bad bargain.