After Dobbs: What Is Feminist Sex?
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
New York Times Opinion
4.0 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not obsessed with sex. |
| 0:07.0 | It's because of thinking about it. |
| 0:10.0 | The performance of it. |
| 0:12.0 | I do think that as casual as relationships are becoming, |
| 0:17.0 | because you can just tinder someone and say, |
| 0:19.0 | I'm down the street, yeah, I'll meet you out. |
| 0:21.0 | There is no like gravitas to having and wooing a partner anymore. |
| 0:26.0 | A marriage is unpaid labor. It's a pre-household slave for each man. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm just talking about two consenting adults having some casual sex. |
| 0:36.0 | Intercourse can be wonderful, but it can also cause tremendous pain. |
| 0:43.0 | And if you're not careful, sex can destroy lives. |
| 0:50.0 | It's the argument, I'm Jane Kostin. |
| 0:53.0 | And this is the last episode in our three-part series on where feminism goes next. |
| 0:59.0 | Today, we're wrestling with one of feminism's longest standing divides. |
| 1:04.0 | What is good sex? |
| 1:07.0 | What kind of sex and romance is feminist? And what's not? |
| 1:11.0 | Is Tinder or hookup culture a sign that feminism is working? |
| 1:16.0 | Or that the patriarchy is still in charge? |
| 1:19.0 | And do your choices in the bedroom actually have an impact in the broader feminist movement? |
| 1:24.0 | My first guest has tackled all of this in her new book, Bad Sex, Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution. |
| 1:32.0 | No no will is a ronowitz, is a sex and love columnist at Teen Vogue. |
| 1:37.0 | Her book is Part Memoir, Part History. |
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