The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Unabridged)
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4.8 • 44 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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 listened to by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultra-liberal era.
Customer Reviews
Finally functional feminism
The ultimate woman’s power is not the biological drives of men. Great to finally hear from liberal thinkers how important gender roles and conventions are to the stability of men, women, children and society. Pity it has taken so long and so much female suffering in the modern era for some feminists to start speaking up.
The new feminist manifesto
The most important read for women (& men) in the last 50 years. Grateful to Perry for being so brave and speaking unpopular truths. As a mother of four children, nothing could be more important as I look to their futures than the quality of their relationships and their ability to find satisfaction, love, and respect in them.
Brutally honest
Have your daughters and granddaughters read this book.