Before we start this episode, I wanted to let you know that I will be in conversation with the brilliant author and broadcaster Candice Brathwaite at the lyric in Soho on the 1st of November, talking all about the themes of this podcast and more. You can book tickets at feign.com.ukuk forward slash Pandora.

A famous philosopher once said to me that he objected to feminist critiques of sex,

because it was only during sex that he felt truly outside politics, that he felt truly free.

I asked him what his wife would say to that.

I couldn't ask her myself.

She hadn't been invited to the dinner.

Yeah. She hadn't been invited to the dinner. You're listening to Season 2 of Doing It Right, with me, Pandora Sykes, a podcast that I talk to experts about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern

life. There's no such thing as the right life, but what might we be getting wrong? In this series,

I'll be exploring the ins and outs of sex, self-care and sadness, and lobbing big questions

at my guests like, could a four-day work week ever really

take off? Why is society getting lonelier? And what would a fair justice system look like?

This is a podcast that asks what can we do to live life better? Not just for ourselves, but for

everyone. My first guest is the mighty Amir Srinivasan, the Chichely Professor of Social and Political

Theory at Oxford University, who's written for the New York Times, the London Review of Books and The New Yorker

on a diverse array of topics including anger, education and the octopus.

Did you know that an octopus does not have

tentacles? It has arms? Me neither. She's also the author of a blistering and

thought-provoking new collection of essays, The Right to Sex, which is already sizzling

its way to cult status. I've been wanting to interview Amir since she wrote a piece

that went viral in 2018 for the LRB, titled,

Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?

After Reddit shut down, a 40,000 member strong, in-cell support group.

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