The hearts of men
American dreams and the flight from commitment
by Barbara Ehrenreich · first published 1983
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…1979, though the marriage rate, and the birth rate, plummeted during those years. But it is possible that the sexual revolution played a role. Barbara Ehrenreich has a fantastic book on the subject "The Hearts Of Men": http://www.amazon.com/The-Hearts-Men-American-Commitment/dp/... Although the marriage rate is now back down to levels last seen in the late 1800s, there is clearly a big difference in people's sexual…
on “Americans aren't getting married, and researchers think porn may be to blame” ↗…desirability of housewifery and led to an increased demand for a better position for women." There is a counter-argument (which reverses the cause and effect) put forward by Barbara Ehrenreich in her book "The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment". She argues that after 1945 there emerged a culture of entertainment, adventure and pleasure seeking that caused men to pull away from traditional commitments…
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