Despite new freedoms (and new technologies), sexual culture seems to have gotten worse, not better. Where is the modern sexual ethic failing, and what might replace it?
Christine Emba is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). She is concurrently a contributing writer at The New York Times and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. Before joining AEI, Ms. Emba was a staff writer at The Atlantic, a columnist and editor at The Washington Post, a Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion, and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Ms. Emba is a contributing editor at Comment magazine, a board member at the American Institute for Boys and Men, and an editor-at-large at Wisdom of Crowds. She is the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (2022), and a graduate of Princeton University.