The Convergence of Sex Positivism and Liberalism

Sally Kohn: It would be too easy to say that sex positivity represents the cooption of feminism by liberalism. She says there is a shared reluctance to interrogate the formation of our desires. The total subsumption of the personal to the political and to the social can feel either authoritarian or just plain unrealistic, she writes. But on the other hand, politics that totally refuses reconscribes all those forms of an insidious domination, recreates them, argues Kohn.