Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

By: Katherine Angel

Narrated by: Cat Gould

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Women are in a bind. They are told that in the name of sexual consent and feminist empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Sex researchers tell us that women don't know what they want. And men are on hand to persuade women that what they want is, in fact, exactly what men want. In this environment, how can women possibly know what they want-and how can they be expected to?

In this book, Katherine Angel surveys medical and psychoanalytic understandings of female desire, from Freud to Kinsey to present-day science; MeToo-era debates over consent, assault, and feminism; and popular culture, TV, and film to challenge our assumptions about female desire. Why, she asks, do we expect desire to be easily understood? In contrast to the endless exhortation to know what we want, Angel proposes that sex can be a conversation, requiring insight, interaction, and mutual vulnerability.

Angel urges that we remake our thinking about sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions of perfect self-knowledge. Only then will we bring about Michel Foucault's sardonic promise, in 1976, that "tomorrow sex will be good again".

Contains mature themes.

Katherine AngelCat GouldTantor Media

Gender Studies

Human Sexuality

Personal Development

Psychology

Psychology & Mental Health

Social Sciences

Gender Studies Human Sexuality Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Sciences

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Among many other important insights, this book enabled me to re-evaluate the received wisdom regarding consent, by examining the unacceptable responsibility which the consent discourse places upon women for policing male entitlement, and the real or threatened violence which so often results from it. The author also gives a profound exposition of the ways in which socially constructed (and therefore highly pervasive) views of male and female sexuality arise: and a potential way forward which is capable of challenging these perceptions, for the mutual benefit of both men and women.

I only wish that the quality of narration matched the quality of the author's arguments. I will have to buy a print copy to study these in more detail.