My personal experience confirms everything in the article as well. A mis-spent youth (very mis-spent), followed by years of suffering, then a godly marriage that I did not and do not deserve.
Many who lived the type of life I lived have not fared so well.
Sexual misconduct has been the ruin of many lives, not just the ones who chose the misconduct, but their children and relatives. It's really amazing that more people do not see this, and think of promiscuity as modern, liberating, natural, and a source of happiness.
Sex without loving, lifelong commitment is one of the most miserable experiences a human being can have. It may have (and doesn't even always have) a superficial glitter, but it leaves the heart dry, lonely, burning-cold, and bitter.
"Sexual misconduct has been the ruin of many lives, not just the ones who chose the misconduct, but their children and relatives."
The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 5
5:1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,
5:2 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
5:3 For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5 Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
5:6 They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
5:7 Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
5:9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;
5:12 Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
5:13 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
5:14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
5:15 Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
5:16 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
5:17 Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
5:18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
5:19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.
5:20 Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
5:21 The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
5:22 His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
5:23 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
LJ, normally I find you semi-amusing, but that one was so far removed from reality that it prompted a genuine belly laugh. You might argue that married sex is better, and I might agree with you up to a point, but to see it's miserable? Hell man, I'm 41 years, and I haven't had a miserable sexual experience yet.