Good answer, and I think you’re right that casual sex often has unanticipated consequences, especially for young women.
But, like it or not, modern contraception has materially altered the presumptions and expectations of a sexual relationship. We easily accept that the invention of the transistor and the internet have changed the way people communicate. Why so difficult to accept that the invention of the pill has changed the way people have sex?
I believe that sex has biochemical not to mention spiritual consequences beyond the obvious pro-creative and epidemiological aspects that we are only beginning to understand. I believe that the pill and other hormonal interventions, for instance, are in many cases destructive of the female sex drive.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
I was just thinking about the lyrics to the Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah, which was written some 20+ years ago but in the news recently because it was both the #1 and the #2 song in Britain, simulaneously, in different releases. Oh, looks like there's thousands of versions of it on YouTube, so I think I'm justified in saying it --- well, struck a chord.
My thought is that it's a good song, actually, and speaks about the profound human contact --- contact --- and transcendance that can be the inner experience of intercourse. It evokes love, loyalty, wonder, gratitude; it's a privileged metaphor for the touch and embrace of Divine love, a metaphor found in the Scriptures of many civilization-generating faiths, as well, of course, as in Leonard Cohen.
The sense is, that this is what it is supposed to be; this is what ennobles persons, what is solidly deep-down right---
and what falls short of this is, in Cohen's words, "cold," "broken," "it all went wrong," -- sad and disappointing.
That's what we sense where our intellect and our affect and what-we've-always-been-longing-for come together. A fucking shame, you might say.
Others have written well about the depressing spectacle of disease and dead babies and all that as a result of truncated sex, junk sex--- yes, it's true --- but there's also the cancer of loneliness and the callousing of souls.
In the light of which, the decline of your civilization seems an afterthought, something you hardly notice.