Since the 19 eighties, the wind has been behind a feminism which does not moralize about women's sexual desires. It insists that acting on those desires is morally constrained only by the boundaries of consent. So we have sex positivity coming as a kind of reaction formation against anti porin, anti prostitution feminism in the seventies. Then then you have the aids crisis, where all of a sudden, just affirming the right to have consentual sex as a gay man becomes an extraordinarily thing to do allo a sudden.
What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century.
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