Is It Post Kind of Hindsight Regret or What?

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Aiella's flatmate was genuinely not enjoying it and put on a brave face because people are very good at that. It might be that women regret sleeping around in their twenties because it's now made it more difficult for them to secure commitment, arguments, relationships and start families. The sexual double standard is still alive and well. Men don't mind a woman who they perceive as promiscuous if she's only looking for a casual relationship. But if they're looking for a long term relationship, they mind more. Women are sometimes remarkably unaware of the realities of male sexuality.

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.