The Cultural Impact of the Sexual Revolution on Us

In the space of four decades, a social understanding that had rained for centuries has really been routed. I want to suggest that our surrounding popular culture has enshrined a particular understanding of what good sex is. Our popular culture tells us that good sex is the sex that has all of those adjectives that we associate with premarital sex. Marital sex derives its goodness and its breed of excitement precisely because it's not always new. And you are not in fact wearing whether she will or will not be there in the morning. That ordinariness opens up space for sex to be more than just two individuals getting their physical needs met on a random evening.