312. Louise Perry — The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Shower Show. |
| 0:20.0 | Okay, everybody, it's Michael Sherman and it's time for another episode of the Michael Sherman Show just to remind you all. My day job is publishing this magazine |
| 0:23.0 | skeptic magazine here's our latest issue on race matters part of our |
| 0:27.8 | sequence this year of matters issues this is on abortion matters. Pro life versus pro choice |
| 0:34.9 | versus whatever else somebody may adhere to and then our first one of the year |
| 0:38.8 | for 2022 was Trans Matters. Everything you need to know about Trans Matters. As you can see, |
| 0:44.2 | we're branching out from debunking astrology and psychics and |
| 0:47.7 | UFOs to a little more culturally pertinent issues. I think we may actually do one on sex matters after today's |
| 0:55.1 | guest in her new book. She is Louise and the case against the sexual |
| 1:02.3 | revolution. Louise Perry. |
| 1:04.6 | We give you its proper introduction here. |
| 1:06.2 | She's a writer, new statesman, columnist, |
| 1:07.9 | and campaigner against male sexual violence. |
| 1:11.1 | Her new book, again, the Against the Sexual Revolution, sparked an international |
| 1:15.0 | conversation about sex in the 21st century. Indeed it has. I've seen quite a bit of |
| 1:19.2 | media coverage you've had. How have you perceived the reception of the book so far? |
| 1:25.0 | Copious and more positive than I was expecting. |
| 1:32.0 | More positive. Okay, you were expecting. More positive. |
| 1:33.0 | Okay, you were expecting push back from whom? |
| 1:36.0 | Everyone, really. |
| 1:38.0 | I mean, and it has, it's had sort of criticism from every angle you can imagine really but I'd say that |
| 1:47.2 | even so probably 90% of responses I've had have been hugely positive and from people of every demographic and of every political |
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