No, I agree that countercultures presuppose mainstream cultures, although the former would prefer that everyone adopt the countercultural principles. Some contrarian outsiders may prefer to be outsiders just for the sake of it, but I doubt that's the norm. Most outsiders would be idealists who don't like to compromise. So they're not outsiders by choice. They want everyone to subscribe to their higher principles.

Honestly, though, I don't see what your substantive objection is to the article. What exactly are you disagreeing with? Do you deny that there's been a perennial anti-sex and romance counterculture? The article just tries to explain both the idealistic and the realistic reasons for that counterintuitive contempt for one of our primal impulses.

Something seems to have rubbed you the wrong way here. Not sure what it is, but the moral status of romantic love is certainly a troubling subject.