Christine has been working as a counsellor with survivors of sexual and other abuse since 19 78. She says the term sex positivity originally meant something specific, lust horizons. Now it's become shorthand for general willingness when it comes to sex - often with any one. Christine: Sex is not a moral yet the bias towards unquestioning acceptance as a marker of so called good feminism makes it difficult to say so. It should not be so hard to express our own discomfort and discuss the broader impl tions of various preferences and practices.
In today's world, we're often encouraged to think that sex is no longer a subject burdened with shame or repressed feelings. Rather, it is pleasurable, exciting and even empowering – as long as all parties are consenting. But do women really have the same sexual freedom as men, or are they still living in a man's world, conforming to male heterosexual desires and tastes? How do young women who’ve grown up in a sexually celebratory and supposedly shame-free society navigate sex? To discuss it, our host, the cultural historian and broadcaster Shahidha Bari, is joined by the authors of two books taking differing approaches to the debate: Christine Emba, columnist for The Washington Post and author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, and Dossie Easton, therapist and co-author of The Ethical Slut.
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