The sexual counterrevolution is coming

I don't see any real evidence in that article for the claim in the headline. If anything, all the trends she's pointing to go the other way, and the supporting anecdotes she has are clearly called out as unusual exceptions to the rule.

Taking history as a precedent, the pendulum is likely to swing the other way eventually, though it'll still surprise us when and in what form it comes. That's just how these things go. But if (as I've just done...) the author is only relying on the patterns of history to make this claim, and not any actual data, the rest of the article is superfluous.

It's difficult to provide evidence for a prediction (perhaps you just mean data), but perhaps a counter revolution is already here, based on this:

"Between 1991 and 2017, the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 percent to 40 percent. Today, people in their early 20s are twice as likely to be sexually abstinent as Gen Xers were at the same age."

But revolution is also probably the wrong word. I believe the sexual revolution in the 60's was rather sudden, all things considered. The trend depicted in the article just seems like a gradual decline, or perhaps the reversion to some sort of society mean.

There is no better time in the history of civilization to live and that includes the freedom of sexual relationships. You can use the internet to find any type of group interested in exactly what you are, from the most wholesome religious dating to the most open, kink-positive open-relationship group-house lifestyle you can imagine. And these more-less exist in every moderately-sized city in the west, or some form of it. And at parties if people start discussing this stuff no one cares from a judgemental aspect, it’s more like “oh wow cool”. I can’t buy this article whatsoever except there exists a subset of social conservatives at elite colleges who care about abstinence and dressing like puritans. Good for them!

Why does everything have to be a swing between extremes? Why does everything have to be a bitter war? Why can't people just let other people live their lives, as long as they're not hurting anyone?

Clearly there's a lot of value in plain old traditional marriage, being a housewife, being a husband, supporting your kids etc. We likely can't have a civilization unless a certain percentage of people are doing this, and certainly not a very healthy one. But that doesn't mean EVERYONE needs to be forced into it, anymore than EVERYONE needing to be forced into being single, career-focused and sleeping around. If some people want to live wild and carefree, let them without calling them trash. If others want to give up a career to raise kids, let them, without calling them fools and an insult to their gender. Different people require different lifestyles. If we run short on the family types (as we may be doing), incentivize that lifestyle a bit. I hear Japan actually pays people (a little) to have kids. But otherwise, just leave people alone.

> The sexual counterrevolution is coming

Its kind of weird to see this without something like (1985) in front of it, the sexual counterrevolution already happened.

Even for the reaction against more recent hookup culture (for which “sexual counterrevolution” is a silly name), we’re many years into that, and its been widely observed, too, so the headline here seems to be really leaning hard into predicting the past.