I think it's really interesting to formulate it in that way because it helps us to think that, you know, maybe there may be differences broadly speaking between men and women and their sexuality. And I don't think the research is conclusive at all or persuasive at all on things like testosterone makes you horny. It's far more complicated than that. But if there are broad differences between the way men and women experience sexual desire, that maybe because the conditions are so vastly different... Men's desire is responding to the world in which they live.
In this episode, Hannah is joined by Katherine Angel, who is the author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent. Katherine discusses consent culture and the pressure we put on women to know what we want sexually as a way of protecting us from sexual violence. She and Hannah talk about why bad sex happens and quickly dip into their thoughts on pickup artists. Finally, Hannah and Katherine discuss the social and political landscape of sex and the big V word: vulnerability.
CW: Sexual assault, sexual violence, and a short discussion about the murder of Sarah Everard
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Katherine Angel is the author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Daddy Issues, and Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell. She directs the MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Granta, The White Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books amongst other places.
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