The writer argues that consent is a form of sex strike. She says women should refuse to have sex with men who are violent or don't treat them like human beings. But people want to have sex, she adds; any movement seeking social change starts on the basis of controlling woman's sexuality.
We are in an era of crisis, collapse, and reactionary tyrants, argues Laurie Penny, but we are also witnessing a transformation: a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and whose bodies matter. In her new book, Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback, Laurie offers an urgent analysis of this moment of sexual politics we are living through. Our host for the discussion is cultural historian and broadcaster Shahidha Bari.
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