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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Consent, Bad Sex and Vulnerability with Katherine Angel

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Katherine Angel, who is the author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent. Katherine discusses consent culture and the pressure we put on women to know what we want sexually as a way of protecting us from sexual violence. She and Hannah talk about why bad sex happens and quickly dip into their thoughts on pickup artists. Finally, Hannah and Katherine discuss the social and political landscape of sex and the big V word: vulnerability.

CW: Sexual assault, sexual violence, and a short discussion about the murder of Sarah Everard

✨MORE ABOUT KATHERINE ANGEL✨
Katherine Angel is the author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Daddy Issues, and Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell. She directs the MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Granta, The White Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books amongst other places.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/KayEngels/
- Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent*: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/689/9781788739160 (aff link)

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0:00.0

You know, consent can't solve all these many, many problems around sex.

0:04.8

You know, the fact that so many women experience pain during sex, so many women encounter sexual violence, so many women experience sex just as kind of bad, as unpleasant, as humiliating, as unpleasurable.

0:25.5

You know, the bar is really low in terms of what women expect from sex.

0:32.1

Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten,

0:37.3

where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

0:49.3

Hello, welcome back to Doing It, the show where we explore the weird and wonderful world of sexuality and relationships. I'm your host and resident sex nerd and enthusiast Hannah Whitten and in a non-pandemic world,

0:56.0

I am that person at the party, who you get in a deep conversation with about your sex life,

1:01.3

even though we only just met.

1:03.6

That's a new intro.

1:04.6

How was it?

1:05.3

I'm testing out new things.

1:06.5

I'm experimenting.

1:08.1

But this week, I am thrilled to be bringing you this episode with writer and author

1:14.5

Catherine Angel. She has written many books, daddy issues, unmastered, a book on desire, most

1:21.6

difficult to tell, and her most recent book, which we dive into the themes of in this episode,

1:29.4

is tomorrow sex will be good again, women and desire in the age of consent. Before we get into the discussion in this episode,

1:35.8

we talk about sexual assault, sexual violence, and there is a short discussion about the murder

1:41.1

of Sarah Everard. So please take care of yourself if you need to.

1:45.7

So we cover a lot in this episode, but first I'll say I really loved tomorrow sex will be good

1:51.2

again. It packs a lot into a very short and digestible book. You may have listened to other

1:58.2

podcast episodes or seen some of my YouTube videos explaining

2:02.4

things like sexual arousal, sexual desire, the model of responsive desire, and this book

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