The Sexual State

How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along

By: Jennifer Roback Morse

Narrated by: Cloey Kelly

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

The sexual revolution—and the breakdown of the family—has brought misery to millions. In The Sexual State, Jennifer Roback Morse shows that the sexual revolution did not just “happen” like a force of nature. Rather, it was deliberately created by “elites”, harnessing the power of the state, allowing them inflict three false and calamitous ideologies—contraception, divorce, and gender—that have led to widespread and profound unhappiness, and worse.

The ideas of the sexual revolution did not emerge from the lived experiences of ordinary people, the government has been imposing the morality of an out-of-touch elite class on the rest of us for decades. The Sexual State turns the conventional wisdom on its head to reveal how:

• The sexual revolution is and always has been a creation of the state
• Social issues are unified and can be understood as the outgrowth of a few simple (but gravely flawed) principles.
• The sexual revolution hides its totalitarian objectives behind seemingly modest demands.
• Children have identity and relational rights with respect to their parents…and how the sexual state denies children these rights 

Social conservative ideas and traditional Catholic morality are getting clobbered. And, the dirty secret that no one wants to acknowledge until now is that the progressive social elites have rigged the system. Most people don’t love abortion, or divorce, or single-parent families!

Thankfully, Dr. Morse, and the Catholic Church, have the answer. It is vital that those who would change the culture understand how we got there, otherwise, the countering tactics will remain impotent.

In this masterful takedown of the sexual revolution and its promoters, Morse calls for a widespread adherence to the principles of the Church. Only then will our society recover from the misrule of the “elites” and the “managerial class”.

©2018 Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD (P)2018 TAN Books

Bold research, terrible narrator

This was a pretty interesting book. I'd seen Dr. Morse on youtube in a couple videos and had seen posts by her Ruth Institute before. This book has pretty interesting review of the sexual revolution showing how contraceptives were pushed through on Connecticut. The book isn't that long, it fairly academic.

Her positions are vastly divergent from the common position of today, but they are well reasoned and were also the commonly held position globally for hundreds of years before the sexual revolution. I listened while driving so may have to listen to it again to really absorb some of the content.

The narrator, Cloey Kelly, is terrible. Easily worst I've heard on Audible. Sure she struggles with the Latin names of Vatican Documents, but she also garbled Thomas Aquinas and some how pronounced Aristotle as Aristotle-"E". I couldn't believe an adult in modern west did not know that name.
Really a young person reading this book was a mistake anyway, Dr. Morse is pretty old now and listening to her speak there is a calm sagelike wisdom conveyed...Cloey sounded lost a times, detached at times, and overall far to young to convey any confidence in the words from the page.

Very Informative Book!

This book details how the sexual revolution ruined society going into details all the terrible things that came from it, the narrator sounded a little angry at times and talked a little fast which I didn't like but all in all a great book that all should listen to.

Poor narrator pronunciation

I finished this title because the subject matter was very interesting, but the narrator was pretty terrible. She struggled to pronounce words especially names, Latin titles of encyclicals, and longer multi-syllable terms. Additionally, she repeated words, dropped words from sentences, and spoke at different paces depending on when the clip was recorded. All-in-all pretty poor production work.