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🗓️ 27 June 2022
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Louise Perry is a writer, Press Officer for the campaign group We Can’t Consent To This and an author.
50 years ago there was a dream of women being released from the patriarchal shackles of stringent sexual norms. They should be able to sleep around like men, talk about sex like men and decouple their emotions from their bodies like men. Except it didn't quite work out, and now Louise thinks that both men and women are in a bad spot.
Expect to learn why trying to not catch feelings when sleeping with someone is very dangerous, how TikTok is encouraging young girls into rough sex, whether sex work is real work, why men's porn addictions are ruining their sex lives, how the washing machine is more useful than most feminists, whether inventing the pill was an error and much more...
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to this show. My guest today is Louise Perry. She's a writer, |
0:05.6 | press officer for the campaign group we can't consent to this, and an author. |
0:10.4 | Fifty years ago, there was a dream of women being released from the patriarchal shackles of |
0:15.2 | stringent sexual norms. They should be able to sleep around like men, talk about sex like men, |
0:19.9 | and decouple their emotions from their bodies like men. Except, it didn't quite work out. |
0:25.2 | And now, Louise thinks that both men and women are in a bad spot. |
0:29.4 | Expect to learn why trying to not catch feelings when sleeping with someone is very dangerous. |
0:34.7 | How TikTok is encouraging young girls into rough sex. Whether sex work is real work, |
0:40.0 | why men's porn addictions are ruining their lives, how the washing machine is more useful |
0:44.8 | than most feminists, whether inventing the pill was an error, and much more. |
0:50.5 | I really enjoyed this conversation. I didn't realise the impact that the sexual revolution had had. |
0:58.1 | I didn't understand all of this strange second-order effect of what it's done to women's |
1:03.3 | levels of anxiety, or body image, or men's relationships, and the erectile dysfunction. |
1:09.4 | It is a very courageous position for somebody who is on the left and a feminist to take to push |
1:16.4 | back against sex-positive feminism. So much to take away from today. And if you enjoyed it, |
1:21.0 | the book is also very short and very good. So go and pick that up as well. |
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