25. LIVE SHOW: Let's Talk About (The Politics Of) Sex, Baby
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
From sex and the pandemic to sex positivity, from dating apps to transphobia to incels, I'm joined by 3 brilliant guests: Shon Faye - author of the upcoming The Transgender Issue; Huw Lemmey, writer of author of books such as Chubz: The Demonization of my Working Arse; and Amia Srinivasan, philosopher and author of the upcoming The Right to Sex.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hello, hello there, this is this is I mean Jones in case you've accidentally stumbled |
| 0:15.1 | on this in which case I'm deeply sorry for the resulting trauma whether you're watching |
| 0:20.1 | this on whatever thing you're watching it on or you're listening to it on the podcast, |
| 0:24.6 | please do look up the podcast and give us five star while you're there just helps get |
| 0:27.9 | the message out just spread the word very appreciative while we're talking about today we're |
| 0:32.0 | talking about sex that's right sex now it is Valentine's day so I think the subject |
| 0:38.6 | is at and also of course sex has actually technically been banned for most of the pandemic |
| 0:46.8 | for single people we don't talk about that very much but it's a fact it has been technically |
| 0:53.1 | I'm sure many of you are painfully aware of that fact so there's a big excuse I would say |
| 0:59.8 | to talk about the politics of sex that's what we're going to do we're going to talk about if |
| 1:03.3 | you just tuned in expecting unadulterated filth you're probably going to be disappointed this |
| 1:09.9 | is not just nothing wrong with that by the way it's just not the topic of this particular |
| 1:14.7 | episode I'm not really out in the future and this one we're talking about all sorts of things |
| 1:18.5 | we are talking about the pandemic and sex because I think that's an important thing to talk |
| 1:22.1 | about we're talking about we're talking about feminism as sexual desire we're talking about |
| 1:28.3 | in cells we're talking about sex positivity we're talking about how prejudice collides with sexual |
| 1:33.5 | attraction we're talking about trans rights and how this intersects with this not least the |
| 1:41.2 | pathological obsession of anti trans rights activists with certain elements which we will talk |
| 1:46.6 | about there's a lot to talk about and it's going to be it's going to be very thorough and I've |
| 1:52.6 | got three fantastic guests let us bring them all in one after the all together let's bring them |
| 1:57.2 | all together they're in now anyway and me and Srinavallsen is a fantastic philosopher who has an |
| 2:03.3 | upcoming book called The Right to Sex also do look up a seminal peachy wrote for the London |
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