"Eden is a sort of voice in the wilderness that's the contemporary dating scene. (If you can still call it that, when so many sexual encounters no longer rise to the level of dating -- which, while it may fall short of more traditional forms of courtship, at least entailed the man's public acknowledgment of some kind of relationship with the woman whose sexual favors he was pursuing or enjoying.)"
— Elizabeth Kantor, writing in Conservative Booknotes, the Human Events Book Service blog, about The Thrill of the Chaste