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The case against the sexual revolution : a new guide to sex in the 21st century / Louise Perry.

by Perry, Louise.

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305.4209046 P463c

Sexual freedom -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Rape culture -- History.

Feminism -- History.

9781509549993 (pbk.)

xi, 216 p. ; 22 cm.

Louise Perry is a writer, New Statesman columnist and campaigner against male sexual violence.

Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.

"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 -- a writer, columnist and campaigner against male sexual violence -- 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 read by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultra-liberal era."--Publisher's description.

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