The Sterile Society
To be for Clinton, as Tara Isabella Burton noted recently in a retrospective piece for Vox, was to be for a dream of sexual sophistication, a Europe-envying vision of perfect zipless adult bliss.
.. the idea that sexual sophistication requires defending pigs from prudes has largely fallen out of fashion.
.. Part of the problem is economic: Everything from student debt to wage stagnation to child-rearing costs has eroded the substructure of the family, and policymakers have been pathetically slow to respond.
.. If women are having fewer children, it must be because they want fewer children. (In fact most women want more children than they have.)