Sexual Revolution
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Right Has Forgotten Feeling
I'm not sure how I got here, into these pages. Lately I’ve found myself in a lot…
Feminism Against Fertility
When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the boys crowed and the girls cried. At least…
Radical Disembodiment
Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a…
Sex in the Frame
I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating…
Navigating the Battlefield of Modern Romance
Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy…
The Mixed Message of Anora
Screenwriter and director Sean Baker’s Anora won four Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards, including Best Director,…
Andrew Tate and Conservative Hypocrisy
On February 27, Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida after Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime…
Lurid and Marginal
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong,” Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch told an interviewer in 2015, “and…
Human Battery Hens
Britain’s Daily Mail recently reported how around one hundred young Thai women were kept against their will,…
Are Diversity and Catholicism “Equally Important” at Notre Dame?
Notre Dame’s provost, John McGreevy, laid out priorities for faculty hiring to Notre Dame faculty in a…
How Family Breakdown Fuels Child Exploitation
Elon Musk did the world a service by bringing the U.K.’s darkest crimes to light. The “grooming…
Purity Culture Isn’t the Problem
The last decade witnessed a sharp turn against the so-called purity culture that emerged in the 1990s…
The OnlyFans Exploitation Trap
OnlyFans creators are competing to have sex with as many men as possible in the shortest amount…
The Impossible Object of Queer Desire
The late British writer Quentin Crisp, despite being one of the first openly homosexual men in England,…
Anita Bryant Takes a Final Pie to the Face
The family of Anita Bryant (1940–2024) only recently announced that the singer and Christian activist died on…
