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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Disciplines:
sociology
culture
politics/sexual politics

Summary

Louise Perry's 2022 feminist critique of the sexual revolution — arguing that liberalized sexual norms have primarily benefited men, that women's genuine interests lie closer to traditional norms around sex and commitment, and that feminist sexual liberation was a mistake.

Core Contribution

Creates the feminist anti-sexual-revolution argument — Perry's case (that consent is necessary but insufficient as an ethical framework for sex, that the pornography industry is built on the degradation of women, and that women's preferences for committed relationships deserve more cultural support than sexual freedom) is the most coherent feminist case against the sexual revolution.

Historical Influences

Andrea Dworkin Germaine Greer

Intellectual Lineage

Louise Perry Polity Press

Allied Works

Irreversible Damage The Blank Slate

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Sexual politics debate

Intellectual Posterity

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution Post-feminist sexual traditionalism

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