We need to talk about sex

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The sexual revolution and second-wave feminism were supposed to empower women in society—and in the bedroom. So why are so many millennial women miserable when it comes to their dating and sex lives? Even after the #MeToo movement enshrined “enthusiastic consent” as the baseline requirement for sexual encounters, women (and men) continue to have sex they don’t really want and don’t enjoy. This week, we talk to Christine Emba, herself a millennial woman, who has surveyed this bleak landscape and think we need to build a new sexual ethic based on empathy and “seeking the good of the other.” Christine is a columnist for The Washington Post and the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation. We ask her why consent is not enough to guarantee ethical sex, how young Catholics can have conversations around these fraught issues and what values a healthier sexual culture would uphold. No Signs of the Times or faith-sharing this week—but that doesn’t mean there was not a lot of Catholic news! Check out some of the great work being done by our America colleagues in the links below. Links from the show: Rethinking Sex: A Provocation Bishops have frank conversations with lay theologians about Pope Francis, U.S. Church and Vatican II in semi-off-the-record meeting What it means to be a woman — from a Catholic perspective Roundtable: Indigenous abuse survivors on truth, reconciliation and the need for a papal apology Former Jesuit superior of Ukraine: ‘Putin is destroying the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.’ Join Jesuitical in Italy! Wondrium special offer What’s on tap? Coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Jim Martin and Jesuit priest.
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1:06.8	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.
1:09.7	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news often over drinks I'm
1:14.7	Ashley and I'm joined by Zach Davis and I'm very happy to be with you this week Ashley
1:19.2	thank you for moving our recording time to accommodate me being out I was a little feeling a little under
1:24.4	the weather this week so I appreciate you moving the recording time to later in the week.
1:28.8	Not a problem it's a little earlier than usual so we drink or we're speaking over coffee. Yes, yes that is the only
1:34.4	drink in our cups right now. So because I was out sick we don't have a full show for you.
1:38.8	We don't have any signs of times or face sharing at the end, but that does not mean that we don't have an exciting show because we are talking about sex this week.
1:47.5	Yes, we are talking about sex with Christine Emba.
1:50.5	Christine is a columnist for the the Washington Post one of my favorite
1:53.8	columnist there and the author of the new book Rethinking Sex a
1:58.0	provocation. Yes it is quite a provocation indeed so really exciting conversation talking about you know what
2:05.4	does it mean we all agree now especially after the me two movement that like consent is a
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