The Bedevilments of Sex: Louise Perry’s “The Case against the Sexual Revolution”
This is a disconcerting state of affairs: freedom is dangerous—but it is precisely this freedom that makes sex so exhilarating.
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Dear friend,
Today in Areo, Ralph Leonard reviews Louise Perry's new book decrying the sexual revolution, and is not convinced:
"Like every Mrs Grundy, she seems unable to wrap her head around the fact that many women actively desire and enjoy sex in itself. She cannot accept that many women harbour “dark desires” and act upon them of their own volition...Perry’s efforts to fuse a radical feminist analysis—in which men and women are represented as different classes with distinct and antagonistic interests—with traditional conservative sexual morality lead to arguments that are inconsistent and unserious."
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