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The Camp of the Saints in its modern form

Paul Craig Roberts

In the summer 2025 issue of the City Journal Kay Hymowitz reviewed a spate of books by middle-aged women who had deserted their husbands and children for the life of a promiscuous harlot. The women are not ashamed that they deserted their families for promiscuous sex, attributing to their independence “the best sex of their life.”

Hymowitz reports that the books have generated enormous publishers’ interest and that it is hard to overstate the excitement that the books have generated–award nominations, book club, Substack posts, confessional essays, group texts, and, yes, says Hymowitz, actual divorces.

The liberal-left values the “ex-wives club” as a renewal of the attack on marriage. It is much better, the middle aged harlots say, to go through life as an unpaid prostitute, than as a pillar of support for a family. These novelists, who have elevated the role of women as harlots above that of wives and mothers, are now celebrities.

The latest version of the liberated woman has discovered “radical self-love,” an extreme form of individualism in which commitment to a family stands between women and themselves, denying them the happiness of self- realization. One bragged to Times Magazine that “I divorced at age 46 and went on to have more and better sex than I ever would have thought possible. I also found that I was better at sex because I had more self-love.” It seems that the achievement of self-love, not love of children and husband, is the new definition of female happiness..........more........