Young women feel they have to be extremely progressive in the bedroom but outside the bedroom they're very nervous about any interaction really at all. I find myself wondering to what extent online dating is acting as an accelerant on both of these fronts. It seems a great many young women are willing to put up with having even quite unpleasant things or things which they obviously don't enjoy more or less out of politeness, says Alice.
Louise Perry has been described as the most influential young feminist in Britain. She claims in her book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution that the contemporary world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn is harming women and she calls for a radical challenge to what she sees as the failed liberal feminism of the 20th century. Meanwhile writer Mary Harrington argues that the belief in the progressive march of history is misguided and that new technology, far from liberating women, has trapped them into commodifying their bodies in the false belief that they are empowering themselves. In this conversation hosted by Alice Thompson, columnist and interviewer at The Times, they present their case for why they think progress is at odds with feminism.
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