An Oxford University social anthropologist’s decades of work have shown that there is a direct correlation between unbridled sexual freedom and the demise of cultures. He did it nearly 100 years ago, long before the sexual revolution exploded in the western world.

The work of J.D. Unwin in his 1934 treatise “Sex and Culture” is prescient. His findings have turned out to be incredibly predictive, having been affirmed by the history of nations over the course of ensuing decades.

Unwin observed that when a society forsook strict prenuptial chastity, a type of “human entropy” — a gradual descent into disorder — set in. Monogamy, belief in God, and rational thinking disappeared within three generations of the shift toward greater sexual freedom. He concluded that sexual revolutions have long-term, devastating consequences for culture and civilization. MORE...