Social conservatives understand women's mental inadequacies, though they don't always openly identify them. When you "liberate" women from having to marry men, and from having to submit to their authority out of natural necessity, women don't mysteriously become "strong" enough to make it on their own. They still need what men have to offer: material support, social status, and most especially, the benefits of men's relatively stronger self-discipline and rationality for running a life that makes sense and keeps you out of trouble.

When women reject these things from men in marriage, they still need them nonetheless, so they turn to the state as a kind of substitute husband. Yet given women's defective judgment, they tend to vote for defective politicians who have good game. And therefore the management of the country under feminism and women's suffrage begins a long decline as the new order of affairs consumes more and more of the society's capital built up and saved during the preceding age of patriarchy.

So that explains why social conservatives want to roll back women's sexual freedom. They think like economists, and they realize that this freedom has costs in terms of political and economic freedoms which over the long run have more value.