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Last week I suggested that the sexual revolution was really homosexual in character, and it signaled a severe social and cultural decline. The celebrated "Kinsey Report" (1948) authored by the gay pedophile Dr. Alfred Kinsey, convinced Americans that sexual license is healthy and normal. Hugh Hefner based PLAYBOY on Kinsey's assumptions and convinced men to substitute lust for love. Later, in this column, I will describe the effect this had on my life. As Mathew Arnold pointed out, culture requires the subordination of animal instincts to spiritual ideals. Specifically, culture is founded on restricting sexuality to love which leads to ...

Not long after an affirming treatment by Hollywood, the life of the "father of the sexual revolution," Alfred Kinsey, is about to be feted on Broadway. The musical "Dr. Sex" is scheduled to run Aug. 26 to Oct. 30 at the Peter Norton Space in New York City, according to BroadwayWorld.com Production notes call "Dr. Sex" the "cleanest show about sex in the history of musical comedy." The movie "explores the loving relationship between Dr. Alfred Kinsey, his wife, Clara ... and their handsome boyfriend (and lab assistant), Wally Matthews." Brian Noonan of "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Les...

Gingerly, Kathleen Thoren's family gathered around her in the intensive care unit, unable to speak to their beloved sister, daughter, wife, or even stroke her hands. The slightest stimulation might create a fatal amount of pressure on the 25-year-old woman's swollen brain, warned the doctors. "We were horrified, but we tried to just quietly be with her," said her sister Erika Klein. "In the end, it didn't help." The mother of three died last fall, just after Thanksgiving, after days of agonizing headaches that the coroner's report said were brought on by hormones released into her system by Ortho Evra,...

Golly durn! I read it in the New York Times. It must be true! Here's the story, anyway: Princeton University -- Princeton, jot that down -- has a brand-new 80-member group, the Anscombe Society -- and it's not a Southern Baptist group either -- that promotes discussion of chastity and abstinence from premarital sex. Discussion of if not indeed adherence to. Wow! Princeton! Ivy League! Cutting edge! Abstinence. There's some disconnect there -- a disconnect entirely wondrous and wonderful to behold. We have heard in latter years of religious groups (ex. True Love Waits) collecting pledges of abstention from premarital...

Tony Blair today launched an extraordinary attack on the decline of the traditional family and the rise of "different lifestyles". In a speech which risked a backlash from single parents' groups and Labour MPs, the Prime Minister said the culture of the "Swinging Sixties" was partly to blame for crime and social breakdown. "A society of different lifestyles spawned a group of young people who were brought up without parental discipline, without proper role models and without any sense of responsibility to others," said Mr Blair. "All of this was then multiplied in effect by the economic and social changes...

Antibiotic-resistant strain of syphilis is spreading A fast-spreading mutant strain of syphilis has proved resistant to the antibiotic pills that are offered to some patients as an alternative to painful penicillin shots. Since the late 1990s, doctors and public health clinics have been giving azithromycin to some syphilis patients because the long-acting antibiotic pill was highly effective and easy to use. Four pills taken at once were usually enough to cure syphilis. But now researchers at University of Washington in Seattle have found at least 10 percent of syphilis samples from patients at sexually transmitted disease clinics in four cities...

Has any generation in history ever banged on about itself more and with less merit than the baby boomers? Oh good, another 1960s retrospective. And another. And another. You can't move for celebrations of "the decade that changed the world forever". Tate Britain is honouring the art of the swinging decade in an exhibition starting at the end of the month. BBC Four is a week into its Summer in the Sixties season, while the Sunday Times magazine is devoting acres to the 10 years that shook the planet. Why this surge of interest? Has a milestone passed? Or is...

It is extremely challenging for conservative college students to pop the bubble of political correctness that surrounds them, and when they do speak, you seldom hear about it. But I have good news for you. More and more students are refusing to take assaults on family values sitting down. For example, on April 15, a young group of College Republicans at Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, organized a day of support for traditional marriage. Looking for reinforcements, the College Republicans invited members of TFP Student Action to join in their efforts. Shippensburg College Republicans had a table inside the CUB Great Hall...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Internet has played a significant role in the latest increase in cases of syphilis among gay men by introducing partners more likely to practice high-risk sex, according to a study released on Wednesday. About 22 percent of homosexual men diagnosed with early stage syphilis reported meeting one or more of their sexual partners through the Internet around the time they were infected, said the study by the Los Angeles Health Department. Researchers at a national conference in Philadelphia on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases also said they found gays who used the Web to meet...

Today during our church services we held a combined meeting of all of the adult men and women who were not involved teaching our primary aged (2-11) and youth aged (12-18) children. I wanted to report to FR about the meeting and the content and its impact. The meeting had been planned for some time to view the video" "Sex has a price tag" A lot of thought and prayer went into presenting this video and its content. We wanted the adult thoughts on this before we hold a meeting for all of the youth in our congregation. The video...

<p>A campaign to market a new line of condoms to teens has some people wondering if it's conveying a message that condom use — and, in essence, sex — is cool for kids.</p> <p>Jimmie Hatz condoms (search) — "jimmie hat" is a hip-hop slang word for condom — are slated to hit some store shelves Feb. 1 and are aimed at urban teens across the country. The company that produces the condoms says it's promoting safe sex, but critics decry the idea of marketing contraceptives directly to teens in a way that seems "hip."</p>

For the past weeks, the media have been gaga over the 50th anniversary of Playboy magazine and the "Playboy philosophy," whose guru, Hugh Hefner, began to mainstream pornography and de-couple sex from a committed marital relationship. What interested me most about this latest excuse to run pictures of almost naked women on television and of the 77-year-old Hugh Hefner in his silk pajamas, surrounded by surgically enhanced women young enough to be his great-granddaughters, was the usual media complicity in promoting a one-sided and incomplete picture of the "free love" generation (which, as it turned out, was neither free nor...

Just as human nature has inherent purpose, so does human sexuality. There is a natural sexual order, a proper order for love — an ordo amorum, as St. Augustine put it. We are made male and female, and these immutable characteristics define proper sexual behavior. Because this proper sexual behavior quite commonly results in childbearing, these characteristics also define the appropriate relationship for sexual behavior: marriage. In marriage alone do men, women and children find the relationship that balances their sometimes mutual, sometimes competing, needs. "Marriage is our attempt to reconcile and harmonize the erotic, social, sexual and financial needs...

I never liked the title of Rabbi Dresner's book. It was called Can Families Survive in Pagan America? and was published in 1995 by Huntington House out of Lafayettte, Louisiana. I got a copy just as I was starting Culture Wars, a magazine that ran concurrently with Fidelity and eventually superseded it. I liked Dresner's book because it fit in perfectly with the idea of Culture Wars at the time. Both the magazine and the book were meditations on the moral basis for America, which as anyone who is familiar with American history knows, is the only basis for America....

<p>About 15 demonstrators gathered at the end of a cordoned-off block of Stelle Avenue, where a crew is filming part of the movie "Kinsey," starring Liam Neeson as well-known human sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.</p> <p>Protester Mary Forester talks to an unidentified film crew member in Plainfield Wednesday as Bonnie Huebner, right, holds a sign denouncing the movie “Kinsey,” based on well-known human sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.</p>

WILL someone please stop the sexual revolution? I want to get off. It was fun at first. In the 1960s and '70s, my forebears burned their bras and dressed badly. Determined to look like men, they shouted that gender was a filthy figment of our imagination as they pushed down the barricades of female stereotypes. Twenty years later, underwear intact and riding the tailwind of their efforts, women such as me confidently strode into the workplace. Now, like the last, excessive days of Caligula's Rome, things are going awry. The feminist-driven gender quake unearthed a topsy-turvy legacy. He's called Metrosexual...

<p>Since fashions have been going retro -- from hip-huggers and halter tops to the recent '60s nostalgia hit ``Down With Love'' -- perhaps it was inevitable that ``Sex and the Single Girl'' would make a big comeback this summer. Barricade Books has dusted off Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 bestseller, given it a hot-pink cover and marketed it as ``A Cult Classic.''</p>

He is fastidious about his appearance, his home and his possessions. He wants as much sex as possible and chooses sexual partners mostly on the basis of appearance. He is self-absorbed and doesn't want emotional involvement or commitment. He thinks a woman would stifle him and children would be a burden. Does this sound like many gays? It is also the masculine ideal purveyed by Playboy magazine to men since the 1950's. The essence of manhood is to lead and support a family. But in 1972, 3 out of 4 male college students got their ideas about masculinity from Playboy,...

The ruling earlier this week by a Canadian appeals court that legalized same-sex marriages in Canada is only the beginning. In one sense, it's no surprise: Public acceptance of homosexual behavior has been growing. A majority of Canadians favor the court's decision. Well, can't happen here, you say. But indeed, it can if public pressure demands it. And support for homosexual rights is growing in the United States just like Canada. Between 1973 and 1993, the percentage of Americans saying that homosexual relations were "always wrong" ranged between 66 and 70 percent. But by 2000, only 54 percent said that...

Sex and the Party Are the Republicans on the threshold of becoming a true majority party for an extended period of time? That's a hot topic in political circles these days. Much of the discussion was kicked off by the uncharacteristically well-publicized internal poll done by the Democratic National Committee, which the DNC's spin doctors just couldn't make look good for their side, no matter how hard they worked at it. The New York Times' Adam Clymer followed that with an article in which he called the Democrats "an awkward coalition whose clan chiefs have not yet gotten over the...