The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry

May 2022 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right?

Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment of liberal feminism and our contemporary hypersexualised culture represent more loss than gain. The main winners from a world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn – where anything goes and only consent matters – are a tiny minority of high-status men, not the women forced to accommodate the excesses of male lust. While dispensing sage advice to the generations paying the price for these excesses, she makes a passionate case for a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint.

This counter-cultural polemic from one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary feminism should be read by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultra-liberal era.

Ratings and reviews

M25, I had a hard time with the beginning as for someone of my demographic feminism is a concept that seems to attack(at least in the social media I have seen) the group I come from. But after embodying some naiveté, I blew through this book in one sitting. I learned so much and gained a lot of perspective of what people have/are going through. If you have any females in your life that you care for, especially of a younger age, I would highly recommend this book. For the wisdom and lessons learned that don't have to be learned the hard way. Cheers

Love Louise Perry and her book. Very educational and inspirational. Please make it as audio book in google play too. Many of us like to drive and listen to good book in the same time.

Very interesting and brave piece of writing.

About the author

Louise Perry is a writer, New Statesman columnist and campaigner against male sexual violence.