Chapter 1 - Sex is "Serious Business"
FbF Book Club: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Perry, 2022)
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Sex is “Serious Business”
“……the sexual revolution has not freed all of us, but it has freed some of us, and selectively, and at a price.”
The line above by the author, Louise Perry, appears very early in the first chapter of this book, and sets the tone for what is to follow: a reassessment of the Sexual Revolution over half a century after it began, with the focus on what it has done for, and especially to, women.
I find it distasteful whenever anyone over 35 years of age talks about sex in public, so I am being rather hypocritical in covering a book about sex as part of the FbF Book Club. I apologize to all of you for this, so please forgive me. I will claim that a historical-analytical approach to the subject makes it much less creepy of me to do. It will be a tightrope act for me, as men talking about sex easily veer into “creep” territory.
For example:
You don’t have to be good judge of character to notice two things in this video: Sharon Tate as visibly uncomfortable throughout it (while still aiming to please), and Hugh Hefner as not at all suave nor debonair, but rather creepy and self-serving as he attempts to intellectualize sex while pushing the agenda of sexual liberation. He comes across as a rather transparent pimp, in my opinion. Yet this creepy pimp was envied by millions of men who craved what he had: access to beautiful, young women ready to have sex at the drop of a hat. Hefner was the male avatar of the Sexual Revolution.