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The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

Louise Perry On The Sexual Revolution

The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.6836 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Louise Perry is a writer and campaigner against sexual violence. This year she co-founded a non-partisan feminist think tank called The Other Half, where she serves as Research Director. Her debut book is The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century, where she takes on casual sex, porn, BDSM, dating apps and prostitution, all from a post-liberal perspective.



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0:00.0

The Hey there. Yes, the voice is still not quite back. My lungs are doing their damn just to keep me silent wisely, probably.

0:38.3

But here I am managing to do another podcast this week, which I really wanted to do.

0:44.3

Thanks for all the feedback about last week's discussion of what's going on on the far right and what the thought is behind it. This week, we're also going to have a

0:56.8

critique of liberal modernity in a different way. Louise Perry is a writer and longtime campaigner

1:05.5

against sexual violence. And this year, she co-founded a non-partisan feminist think tank called The Other Half,

1:14.3

where she serves as research director.

1:17.8

Her first book, Just Out, is called The Case Against the Sexual Revolution,

1:24.8

A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century. Louise, thank you so much for coming on

1:31.6

British cast. Thank you. It's lovely to be here. And you're English, right? Obviously.

1:36.8

I'm in English, yeah, yeah. Although the book is out here just as permanently is in the UK.

1:43.1

Tell me, where did you grow up in England? And what was your

1:46.3

background like? So I'm, my parents are Australian, actually. So I'm, I'm sometimes told I have a

1:51.1

very slight Australian accent, though. That's a controversial point, more than Australian relatives.

1:56.2

But I was born here in London and have lived in London pretty much my own life. And I mean, I think my

2:03.2

background as being very boring, but I suppose everyone thinks that because it's normalised to

2:06.9

them. So I come from a, you know, a happy, stable, middle class upbringing. My father's a lawyer.

2:12.9

My mother's an academic. So the point of my biography that is probably most, becomes most pertinent to the book,

2:18.8

is I did anthropology and women's studies at university. And then after I left, I worked at a

2:24.6

rape crisis center as a support worker. Tell me what, when you studied women's studies,

2:31.8

what did you start? What was, presumably this was the

2:35.7

Bible that you were taught. Tell me what the, because I never took women's studies.

2:41.5

Tell me what, what basically is the gist of that curriculum. Well, it does vary between

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