Why Do Women Stay in Brought-Up Relationships?

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Women are just smaller and weaker than men that's the reality of it. We're made more vulnerable still by childbearing and breastfeeding, so either you accept chivalry is actually beneficial or you leave women to their own devices. The very good reason why you shouldn't ask your partner to chokeYeah right it's incredibly reckless thing to doYou try and ride the tiger male sexual energy is just really hard to give everyone's drunk right right right.

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.