Books, Arts & Manners: Sex Tips for Modern Liberals

Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution Is Killing Family, Marriage, and Sex, and What We Can Do about It, by Maggie Gallagher (Bonus Books, 283 pp., $18.95)

Maggie Gallagher, formerly NR’s article editor, has written a provocative book about the disastrous and sometimes deadly effects of denying mankind’s “lust for gender.” It has to be said, unfortunately, that some readers may be confused and even turned off by the opening chapter or two. Miss Gallagher has two voices: one flip and sophisticated, which she uses in the “sexier” opening chapters, the other more probing, more reflective, which dominate the body of the book. The first voice speaks the language of the best-seller, or rather the aspiring best-seller. But Miss Gallagher is capable of better things, and she delivers them in full measure.

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Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution Is Killing Family, Marriage, and Sex, and What We Can Do about It, by Maggie Gallagher (Bonus Books, 283 pp., $18.95)

Maggie Gallagher, formerly NR’s article editor, has written a provocative book about the disastrous and sometimes deadly effects of denying mankind’s “lust for gender.” It has to be said, unfortunately, that some readers may be confused and even turned off by the opening chapter or two. Miss Gallagher has two voices: one flip and sophisticated, which she uses in the “sexier” opening chapters, the other more probing, more reflective, which dominate the body of the book. The first voice speaks the language of the best-seller, or rather the aspiring best-seller. But Miss Gallagher is capable of better things, and she delivers them in full measure.