继伍德斯托克音乐节之后,出现的是针对校园性侵的调查;焚烧胸罩之后,出现的是约会强奸问题。20世纪60年代的性革命起初激起了热情,但此后热情逐渐消退。这些运动如今看来已不再完美,甚至显得丑陋:一方面,它们未能触及意义、目的与满足感,尤其是与性相关的满足感。革命并不等于进步。

After Woodstock came campus surveys on sexual assault. After bra-burning came date rape. The Sexual revolution of the 1960s aroused enthusiasm at first, but passions have since waned. Those movements have come to look imperfect, even ugly: For one thing, they have failed to touch meaning, purpose, or fulfillment, especially the fulfillment relating to sex. Revolution doesn’t mean progress.

最近有一项发现称，西方大学里每四名女性中就有一人曾遭受西方男性的性侵犯，这一结果令人不安地与另一事实相呼应：西方每四名女性中就有一人将在人生某个阶段遭受家庭暴力。这些严峻的数据让西方人意识到，困扰所谓西方世界乃至整个自由世俗世界的一大苦难，正是其与女性和女孩之间病态的关系。她们若不是在五岁的稚嫩年纪就被拉去参加低俗的选美比赛，便是被主张性解放的女权主义者指责，说她们不懂得拥抱自己“内在的性爱女神”。即便情况没有那么糟，西方女性至少也可能要面对长期的临床抑郁和孤独，更不必说直接遭受家庭虐待和性暴力。为应对后者，西西方大学和职场都纷纷编制了详尽的行为准则，供大学男生和男性员工参考，因为他们天生就有约会强奸和性骚扰女性同事的倾向。

The recent finding that 1 in 4 Western women in college are victims of sexual assault by Western men ominously mirrors the fact that 1 in 4 Western women will be victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives. These grim stats have led people in the West to realize that one of the great miseries plaguing much of the so-called Western world, and the liberal secular world more generally, is its sick relationship with women and girls. If they are not being paraded around in sleazy beauty contests at the tender age of five or being berated by sex-positive Feminists for not embracing their “inner sex Goddess.” At a minimum, Western females can look forward to a life of chronic clinical depression and loneliness, if not outright domestic abuse and sexual violence. To address the latter, both Western universities and workplaces alike have taken to producing extensive guides of good conduct for college boys and male employees due to their preternatural propensity to date rape and sexually harass their female counterparts.