Casual sex, but no casual dating or courtship

Students report an alarming fact. They live in an environment, they say, in which there is casual sex, but no casual dating. Why would that be? One reason there might be so little casual dating is because of the widespread presumption that a date is supposed to lead to casual sex. Thus, if you’re the type of person who isn’t interested in casual sex – and studies suggest that, more and more, young people aren’t – then you probably shy away from “dates” with all the baggage that might come along with it. It’s a shame that the errors of the “sexual revolution” of the Boomer generation continue to infect the culture so that we can’t have nice things anymore, like civilized public spaces and innocent dating.