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The case against the sexual revolution, a new guide to sex in the 21st century, Louise Perry

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The case against the sexual revolution, a new guide to sex in the 21st century, Louise Perry

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The case against the sexual revolution

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Louise Perry

Sub title

a new guide to sex in the 21st century

Summary

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 provocative 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 sage advice to the generations paying the price for these excesses, she makes a passionate case for a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint. This counter-cultural polemic from one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary feminism should be read by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultra-liberal era

Table Of Contents

Sex must be taken seriously -- Men and women are different -- Some desires are bad -- Loveless sex is not empowering -- Consent is not enough -- Violence is not love -- People are not products -- Marriage is good -- Conclusion: listen to your mother

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