"The Case Against the Sexual Revolution" by Louise Perry is a brutal, systematic execution of every modern norm within gender relations-- feminist, "sex positive", and traditionalist alike.

Taking an extremely critical eye to the consent based morality of modern feminism, she mills through the contemporary "my body, my choice", bumper sticker orthodoxy and argues that the motivations underlying the "sex positive" second wave feminist movement functionally serve men, furthering their ability to engage in casual sex and openly enjoy prostitution and pornography. Therefore, she posits, these modern conceptions do not work in liberating women from oppressive "purity culture," but rather promote a sexual marketplace that involves no material or societal commitment to the women engaging in sex, unlike the time-honored tradition of monogamous marriage. She argues that ultimately, even without religious implication or significance, marriage is imperative to level the playing field between the gender which will always have a biologically significant investment in reproduction and the gender that does not have to lug around a human in their uterus for 9 months.

Perry's book is incredibly well researched and well argued, but it also includes many nuggets of practical wisdom for young women and girls who have obtained (or are in the process of obtaining) sexual maturity. I ended up giving a copy of this to my 16 year old cousin, and I think it's an absolute must-read for all people who care about sexual ethics in our culture--a post-birth control, post-pornography normalization, post-sexual revolution minefield.