Is the sexual counterrevolution coming?
Americano
The Spectator
4.0 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:45.2 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency. We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president |
| 0:52.5 | will change America and we'll be asking if normalcy, which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American politics? |
| 1:02.2 | The answer, of course, is no. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm joined today by three guests. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm joined by Mary Harrington, who is a columnist at Unheard. I'm joined by Louise |
| 1:12.7 | Perry, who is a columnist at the New Statesman and also author of the case against the sexual |
| 1:18.5 | revolution, and that is out next year. And we are also joined by the anonymous default friend who |
| 1:24.0 | are going to call DF for this call. D.F. Thank you very much for joining us. |
| 1:27.9 | Thank you for inviting me. That's pleasure. And Mary is here at The Spectator. Mary, you've written |
| 1:32.9 | a brilliant cover piece for the latest edition of Spectator World, the June edition. And it's |
| 1:38.8 | about the sexual counter-revolution. And as far as I know, people have talked about or expected there to be a |
| 1:46.1 | sexual counter-revolution pretty much since the sexual revolution happened and that there would be a |
| 1:50.7 | kind of puritanical reaction to free love. And you think this is finally happening. Can you tell us a little |
| 1:57.2 | bit about why you think it's happening, how it's manifesting itself and so what? I think perhaps the precipitating factor, at least I argue in the piece that the |
| 2:05.1 | precipitating factor that's really accelerated the coming reaction, which I've done my best |
| 2:10.6 | to describe in the piece, is the internet, which has accelerated a number of social changes |
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