"I think we do divide women into kind of good and bad victims," she says. "It's so much part of our thinking about sexuality, this kind of, you know, the courtroom in our heads" She adds that it makes it difficult for women to show solidarity with one another. 'We should live in a world where we can be drunk and passed out and not be assaulted'
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
✨MORE ABOUT KATHERINE ANGEL✨
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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