The Role of Desire in Sexual Desire

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Psychologists have been developing a new model of sexual desire in women. They say it's not the case that you can just spontaneously want sex and fantasize about it. Women often live in very different social worlds around sex, so their desire may be slow to emerge. But if they're with a partner who is arousal-seeking, then her desire will build. This could help us question this kind of really linear mechanical model for sexuality.

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.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/KayEngels/
- Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent*: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/689/9781788739160 (aff link)

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