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.
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