Men still seek and are willing to pay for the services of prostitutes, often asking for the fulfillment of the most bizarre fantasies and fetishes. They pour huge sums of money into the burgeoning trade of pornographic magazines, pictures, films and video-tapes which represent women as the objects of male desire. Clubs, pubs and conferences of businessmen and union men are routinely entertained with girly strip-shows. Men still rape women.
Fathers still commit incest with their daughters. The culprit? Barrett and McIntosh argue that the problem is that families remain too traditionally hierarchical.
This is not a natural order, but a social construct and a political decision. No sexual relation can be entirely free from the pervasive imagery based on marriage. And the solution, the authors argue, is to disassemble the family that has such damagingly anti-social consequences. But the authors must believe their analysis still holds, since they reprinted the book earlier this year. Several decades on, one might have thought that we had some empirical evidence about the dismantling of the traditional family, especially in those parts of the world where illegitimacy and single-parent families are common.
One is curious to know if the authors think this experiment in non-traditional family life has been a success. With traditional families collapsing in our inner cities, have the men finally been tamed? Resource Library. Research Tools. Thought Readers. E-Books and Other Special Offers. Follow Patheos. Home About Publications Archive Index. Home Evangelical Family and sex. Family and sex Last updated on: May 7, at am. May 7, by Peter Leithart.
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