Building a Sexually Liberated World

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Sally Kohn: What does sexual liberation look like to you? She says we can't have empowerment without the vulnerability of sex. We should be able to move through the world with that vulnerability, she says. Kohn: There's a lot of beauty and potential in that because then we can really think.

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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