The former atheist A.N. Wilson, a famous British essayist, biographer, and journalist, has written a sobering assessment about the damage of the sexual revolution. Wilson confesses his own role in the damage:
I imbibed all the liberationist sexual mores of the Sixties as far as sexual morality was concerned. I made myself and dozens of people extremely unhappy—including, of course, my children and other people's children …. How easy it was to dismiss old-fashioned sexual morality as 'suburban', as a prison for the human soul …. Yet, as the opinion poll shows, most of us feel at a very deep level that what will make us very happy is not romping with a succession of lovers. In fact, it is having a long-lasting, stable relationship, having children, and maintaining, if possible, lifelong marriage. We ignored the obvious fact that moral conventions develop in human societies for a reason.
