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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

By: Louise Perry
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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.

©2022 Polity Press (P)2022 Louise Perry Gender Studies Social Sciences
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Recommended to and by me.
An informative and interesting book which offered some intriguing insights & perspectives.

Worthwhile

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As a male I would recommend this to all men.
This is informative and kept interesting by the narration.
It's worth letting your olderer children know as well. 5 stars.

Eye opening must read

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Reading this book addressed so many concerns that I had previously repressed. The arguments it makes are logical, realistic and critically important. I only wish that its views were not so unique among current social commentary.

Compelling and relevant

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This is exactly what I needed. I see my worth
clearly now. Thank you so much.

An eye opener

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I believe in society we seem to always be looking at the negative outcome of damage we do. Trying to fix it from the end. How better to educate ourselves so that we may at the beginning be aware. Once aware then choices cannot be laid at the feet of others. Life is complicated but sometimes threads help us piece it together.

For men. For women. But mostly for the children

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