Do You Think the Multiple Personality Movement Is Going to Swing Back Soon?

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i think the movement has already peaked and we are seeing that back more in the uk so far. i think it will definitely fade away because they all do eventually and it will be replaced by something else. The problem is of course that you've now got a lot of people who have permanently altered their genitals had double mastectomies suspended puberty. We've done this really experimental thing on mostly children and that can't be repaired.

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.