The part of the sexual revolution that encouraged promiscuity didn't help anyone. The shaming that accompanied the previous moral paradigm harmed many people.

You can describe life in one word, fitness. From a scientific perspective fitness is a measure of an individual's adaptation measured in the number of surviving offspring. The purpose of any organism is to reproduce.

Feelings are instincts that we experience as physiological changes because our conscious mind doesn't have direct access. They are modified by external influences both consciously and unconsciously including culture. That influence however is primarily over expression in terms of behavior not the instincts themselves.

The question is if we are to be civilized or instinctual. Civilization is characterized by a slow lifestyle. One that invests in long term outcomes not immediate gratification. Part of that investment is in careful reproductive practices that favors fewer but better cared for offspring. The sexual revolution disassociated copulation from reproduction. Partly because of contraceptives but also culturally. We tried to keep the civilized part without the slow lifestyle. The resulting cognitive dissonance can be handled by some segments of society but not others. In general however the satisfaction of sexual impulses that do not coincide with the artificial restraints of a culturally imposed slow lifestyle will reduce overall life satisfaction in a civilized society. Instincts are indifferent for the most part to individual well being as long as fitness is achieved. A fast lifestyle is like a salmon swimming upstream to reproduce and die.

Men have always sexually exploited women. In the instinctual tribal society however rape would have been somewhat uncommon. First you can't rape the willing and secondly small groups living together in close contact have no secrets. Bad behavior is obvious and instantly punished. A slow lifestyle is of little use because the environment is easy but unpredictable. In a large civilized society secrecy becomes a tool to facilitate exploitation. Bad behavior is not obvious and punishment often slow. Civilization being dependent on a slow lifestyle and our instincts being at odds with said lifestyle we must enforce artificial restraints. We can't choose to simply expose instinctual behavior that undermines the social structure only when we are uncomfortable with it.

There are sacrifices that both men and women have to make to maintain a civilized lifestyle. Primarily it's a matter of postponing satisfaction. While sexual abuse is rightfully criminal any fast lifestyle undermines a civilization.

I believe that it has helped some but then the feminist jumped on board and blew it up. There is such thing as campus rape and that is a criminal and morally reprehensible act however because you both drank too much the night before and you woke up with regret.. that is not rape. When everything becomes rape then it takes away from the brutal reality of real experience.

I believe it should be brought forth because there have been lots of women who have had this type of pressure on them. In saying that though there are also women who have lied and falsely accused men that should spend time in jail. Justice always

I think sexual assault and harassment goes back through history a long way (mostly men on women) I asked my spouse if she has ever been affected and her answer was yes. And same with my step daughter. (Her oldest) Most women will come across some form of it so the best way to stop it is to talk about it. It probably gets swept under the carpet most of the time.

I'm unaware of the me too movement helping anyone. That doesn't mean it hasn't. I think it was developed as a political tool to unjustly attack conservatives. All those with ties to Epstien, (who didn't kill himself), are overlooked as long as they are pro-abortion.