Well, welcome to the Breakpoint podcast.

The release of the film Qudies by Netflix has escalated a conversation about where the sexual

revolution will eventually end and in an attempt to help all of us understand the sexual

revolution.

We will be talking about later on this week on Breakpoint with a commentary about whether

pedophilia is indeed a new stage just this past weekend in First Things magazine.

That argument was made by a writer, and we'll link to that in the show notes.

And then also later on this week in a breakpoint commentary,

I make a similar point that those who think that the film Qudies is not that bad,

not that big of a deal, because of either the intent of the author and producer to reveal what the problem is or maybe because of a justified sense of

artistic license, that they're misunderstanding a number of things. They're forgetting the way

the sexual revolution has always advanced. They're forgetting the larger context of the

sexualization of children that we see in our culture on a number of levels,

from drag queen story hours to sex education at very young ages. And they're also missing the

power that film and art has to bypass the conscience and recreate the norms of our culture.

All of this, by the way, is built upon a consistent myth of the sexual

revolution, which I sum up as the kids will be fine. And so today on the Breakpoint podcast,

I wanted to bring back an interview that I did a couple years ago with the brilliant Helen

Alvare, a professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

She teaches family law, law and religion and property law there.

And she's published widely on areas concerning marriage, parenting, non-marital households,

and the First Amendment religion clauses.

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