Trans Rights - What's Going on in the 21st Century?

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There's a four thousand percent spike in people who identify as trans and just the last like three years. One hypothesis is the social contagion um theory because it happens in one age cohort usually teenage to early 20s. The other hypothesis is that no society is more liberal and tolerant some more and more people are coming out. You don't have to comment if you don't want on trans matters uh yeah you're happy tooYeah i don't write about it in the book i don't know that's whyyeah what's what's going on or why are we experiencing this?

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.

Shermer and Perry discuss: What was the sexual revolution? • feminism: first wave, second wave, third wave, and beyond • the evolutionary psychology of sex differences • experiencing self vs. remembered self • individual freedom vs. societal good • monogamy vs. polygamy • marriage vs. domestic partnerships • Why is the government in the marriage business? • BDSM and sexual violence • autogynephilia • trans matters • abortion matters.

Louise Perry is a writer, New Statesman columnist, and campaigner against male sexual violence. Her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, has sparked an international conversation about sex in the 21st century.