The sexual revolution lied to us, promising liberation,

satisfaction and happiness, it is only delivered pain, confusion and destruction.

Author Louise Perry argues from a secular feminist perspective that abandoning Christian regulations

on marriage and sex has gotten us here and she's got some fascinating advice on how we can recover

from the brokenness caused by sexual liberalism. This episode is brought to you by our friends at

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Louise, thank you so much for joining us. Before we get started, can you tell us who you are and what

you do? I'm Louise Perry, I'm a journalist and author based in London, UK.

And you wrote a book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, A New Guy to Sex in the 21st

Century. Before you get into the content of the book, can you first just set us up, why did you write it?

I mean, it's kind of a decade's work. Even though I wrote it pretty quickly, I wrote it basically

between learning I was pregnant with my son and him being six months old, which wasn't very clever.

I can anyone listening, he's considering writing a book at the same time,

telling a baby I would have hiked against it. But this was, it's been my first job out of

university, I was working in a rape crisis centre and I've since worked as a campaigner on

sexual violence and the law and a lot of my journalism has been focused on this topic in all sorts

of different ways. So it was something I've been thinking about for a really long time

and having a lot of conversations with young women, all of whom are saying the same things,

you know, there is something deeply, deeply wrong with our sexual culture.

And the standard narratives available to us, the progressive narrative about sexual

revolution, which says that this was all for women's sake, you know, that it was, it was all about

maximising our freedom and that we should be grateful for it. I think actually if you look at

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