RadixJournal - February 25, 2026


Love and Marriage

Topics
working-class women
Hosted by
Richard Spencer
Mentioned
Tom Wolfe
This Is Not An Iran War The Feminist Syndrome

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

146.7

Word count

790

Sentence count

59

Harmful content

Misogyny

14

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Toxicity

9

sentences flagged

Hate speech

4

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Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the decline of pre-marital sex in the modern era, why it s a problem, and what it means for the future of sex in America. We also talk about why Gen Z aren t having sex at all, and why that s a good thing.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 that the solution to every broken sexual norm was to break more of them.
00:00:05.040 That's always been my MO.
00:00:06.600 A lot of women listened, and a lot of women got hurt. 1.00
00:00:10.620 They ended up more medicated and more lonely than any generation before them,
00:00:15.360 having less sex than almost anyone before them, too.
00:00:18.940 These things are true to an extent.
00:00:24.180 I agree that there is a sex-in-the-city era that occurred, 0.99
00:00:30.000 and you could find lifestyle columnists that were these single sluts 1.00
00:00:35.940 who would talk about their various conquests or being conquested. 0.95
00:00:41.220 Don't you think this is a little bit of a straw man?
00:00:44.340 I mean, wealthy liberal women have more success in marriage 1.00
00:00:50.860 than middle-class or in especially working-class women. 0.94
00:00:56.960 Yes, marriage is collapsing amongst the bottom 50. 0.93
00:01:01.060 It's not collapsing amongst upper-middle-class liberal white women. 1.00
00:01:04.820 It's become a luxury item, which is in a way very sad.
00:01:09.340 But I'm not—at the very least, you could say is that even if some people were telling women this,
00:01:15.700 educated upper-class women weren't listening. 1.00
00:01:18.500 No.
00:01:18.840 It reminds me of this—I remember there's this book.
00:01:23.440 It wasn't called—it might have even been called Hooking Up.
00:01:25.960 I know that's a book by Tom Wolfe, but I never read it.
00:01:29.940 I just read some reviews and heard some people interviewed about it,
00:01:33.880 and I agreed with the thesis, basically,
00:01:36.480 which was that the sexual revolution has hit college campus. 1.00
00:01:41.600 But the problem is, is that a lot of well-to-do women are smart enough to manage it. 1.00
00:01:51.440 And so, yeah, they might go and give a frat guy a blowjob, 1.00
00:01:59.160 and they might sleep around a little bit, teehee, 0.99
00:02:02.920 but they're ultimately going to be fine.
00:02:06.220 And they're going to have these moments of degeneracy or whatever,
00:02:12.560 but they're ultimately much more likely to have a successful marriage and children, etc.
00:02:18.620 And it's sort of like the lower-class women are the ones that really need social morality. 1.00
00:02:26.740 You know, like, they benefit from it more because they're the ones that, like,
00:02:31.400 hook up with a guy at a truck stop and get beaten up.
00:02:35.160 Or they're the ones who have a one-night stand and then end up raising that man's children 0.99
00:02:41.640 who they never hear from again.
00:02:43.840 And it's like, I guess, the argument which I agree with,
00:02:47.980 which is that upper-class women are basically fine, 1.00
00:02:51.840 but for the sake of the working class, you should maybe promote morality.
00:02:57.300 Also, from the point of view of, I guess, yeah, they're promoting,
00:03:01.120 they're saying, you know, marital sex is the way to go rather than premarital sex. 0.74
00:03:04.780 The picture of premarital sex that's being drawn here is of this, like, wild bacchanalia from coast to coast.
00:03:11.560 And obviously, that's not really the situation for the most part.
00:03:14.760 Most of the premarital sex that's happening is in the context of relationships.
00:03:18.760 So on that level as well, it's a strong man.
00:03:21.860 Yes.
00:03:22.160 That often lead to a marriage as well.
00:03:24.320 Yes.
00:03:26.040 And is it all a bacchanalia or are we not having sex at all? 0.93
00:03:30.740 Because as I've also stressed at other points, like, the fact that Gen Z aren't having sex at all, 0.66
00:03:38.220 I think is a really big problem, sort of on a different level.
00:03:42.500 But another aspect of this, there's this book that I, when I was working in the American Conservative many years ago, in 2007,
00:03:51.460 that I remember editing this review of the book.
00:03:54.560 And I also agreed with the thesis.
00:03:56.720 And I also am not going to bother actually reading this boring social science book.
00:04:01.540 But I agreed with the thesis.
00:04:03.360 And it was basically about working-class women in Philadelphia.
00:04:08.900 And this woman, the sociologist, did a lot of different interviews.
00:04:13.120 And she found out this kind of dysfunctional thing going on with them where they were okay as a single mother.
00:04:24.000 And in fact, being a single mother was a way of organizing their life. 0.99
00:04:28.440 You know, they would take their, I got to take my kid to daycare.
00:04:31.000 Oh, I got to get him to school by 8.30.
00:04:33.660 And then, like, I do my job.
00:04:35.040 And then, like, oh, I got to get out of there quick to pick him up and take him, you know.
00:04:39.380 In a way, they're busy.
00:04:41.160 But it also kind of helps you organize your life in a way.
00:04:44.300 You don't have time to, like, do drugs or run around because your child manages things for you by necessity,
00:04:51.820 if you understand what I'm saying.
00:04:53.580 And there's a lot of truth to this.
00:04:54.960 But the problem is, is that they were fine with being a single mom.
00:05:00.300 But then they over-romanticized marriage.
00:05:04.180 Yeah.
00:05:04.620 Yeah.
00:05:04.680 Thank you.
00:05:05.500 Thank you.
00:05:08.220 All right.
00:05:10.280 Thank you.
00:05:22.660 All right.