The case against the sexual revolution : a new guide to sex in the 21st century
Louise Perry (Author)
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment of liberal feminism and our contemporary hypersexualised culture represent more loss than gain. The main winners from a world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn - where anything goes and only consent matters - are a tiny minority of high-status men, not the women forced to accommodate the excesses of male lust. While dispensing advice to the generations paying the price for these excesses, she makes a case for a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint. --From publisher description
Print Book, English, 2022
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022