America’s relational landscape is increasingly bleak and barren. Americans are less likely to be married, or even partnered, and they report having less sex. Instead of the happiness, authenticity, and pleasure that the sexual revolution promised, there is a loneliness epidemic as men and women are driven further apart. At the heart of the problem is the prevalence of pornography in our society. Forming young men will be a lot easier if we remove the filth that is choking out loving and flourishing complementary relationships between men and women. Nathanael Blake has more.

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Guest Info

Nathanael Blake, Ph.D. is a Fellow in the Life and Family Initiative at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His research interests include American political theory, Christian political thought, and the intersection of natural law and philosophical hermeneutics. His published scholarship has included work on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Russell Kirk and J.R.R. Tolkien.

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