262 pages | ISBN

9781890626587


Social Science

Press: Ruth Institute Books
Cloth


Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World

By Jennifer Roback Morse

Fear is at the heart of the sexual revolution–fear of other people, fear of relationships, fear of permanence–and its most fitting monument is the “hook-up.” In this provocative book, Jennifer Roback Morse exposes the sexual revolution’s fraudulent promise of freedom and points the way to the most thrilling human adventure of all: life-long love.

Morse explains why marriage is in crises and why we should care. Strong, lasting marriages, she argues, are essential for the survival of a free society, not to mention basic human happiness. She fires the opening shots of a new sexual revolution and hows how everyone, married or single, can help.

Morse fearlessly explodes some of modern society’s most cherished–and destructive–myths. A practical book by a practical woman, Smart Sex is about why and how to stay married.

Jennifer Roback Morse is a renowned marriage and family scholar. She is the author of Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, and of major academic and public-policy articles for journals, ranging from the Journal of Economic History to Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.