David Brock, New York Times bestselling author of Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative:

“It’s wishful thinking to imagine that the Religious Right is in retreat on all fronts in America and Dagmar Herzog fearlessly reveals how at the nexus of sex and politics, evangelical conservatives still control the agenda. How did this happen and why are progressive leaders silent on sex in America? With eye-popping research and reporting, Dagmar Herzog offers answers and, more important, issues a transformative challenge to all Americans. Sex in Crisis is a remarkable, necessary book.”


Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Election, Little Children, and The Abstinence Teacher:

“Sex in Crisis is a brilliant analysis of the ways in which our bedrooms have been invaded by the anxiety-mongers of Big Pharma and the moralists of the Christian Right. Dagmar Herzog's account of America's New Sexual Revolution is crisply written, often disturbing, and utterly persuasive.”

A fascinating interview with the academically-accomplished author can be read here.

In addition to the overall importance of the assault on "non-Christian" sexuality that the Mainstream Media has largely bought into, as well as "conventional wisdom" in Congress (although Obama is starting to reverse that a bit), there are some very revealing insights into the sex lives of married Christians behind closed doors, since the wife is often a vassal to the sex needs of the husband. But there is also Christian "orgasmic sex" -- among married couples -- and companies that make large profits on Christian sex aids.

Bizarre.

"America is in the midst of a second sexual revolution--and this time, argues historian Dagmar Herzog, the love isn't free.
There is a war on sex in America--and conservative evangelicals are winning. Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, America has gone frigid.

Republicans--and even many Democrats--insist that abstinence is the only acceptable form of birth control, and fully 50 percent of American high schools teach a "sex education" curriculum that includes deceptive information about the prevalence of STDs and the failure rate of condoms. Students are taught that homosexuality is curable, and that pornography is addictive.

Americans are not anti-sex, but they're increasingly anxious about sex--largely due to the tactics of the Religious Right. Afraid of sounding unelectable, American liberals have failed to challenge its retrograde orthodoxy. We are all evangelicals now.

How has the Religious Right achieved this ascendancy? Surprisingly, argues Dagmar Herzog in Sex in Crisis, Evangelicals have appropriated the lessons of the first sexual revolution far more effectively than liberals. With the support of a billion-dollar Christian sex industry, evangelicals have crafted an astonishingly graphic and effective pitch for the pleasures of "hot monogamy"--for married, heterosexual couples only, of course. This potent message has enabled them to win elections and seduce souls, with disastrous political consequences.

Fierce, witty, and brilliant, Sex in Crisis will force America to confront its national sexual dysfunction--and rally all but the most pious hot monogamists to demand a more sophisticated national conversation about the facts of life."