Summary of Louise Perry's The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

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#1 The life of Monroe, the original playgirl, followed a similar trajectory to that of her pin-up predecessor Bettie Page, who survived into old age but spent her final decades in a psychiatric institution. The most successful modern porn stars are also likely to have been sexually abused as children, to have been in foster care, and to have been victims of domestic violence.

#2 The sexual revolution was the liberation of women’s sexuality, but it was also the liberation of the playboy, who needed contraception and abortion in order to free his own libido.

#3 The sexual revolution of the 1960s stuck, and its ideology is now the ideological sea we swim in. It was able to persist because of the arrival, for the first time in the history of the world, of reliable contraception.

#4 I used to believe the liberal narrative, but after working at a rape crisis center, I realized that liberal feminism doesn’t take into account other forms of social stratification, particularly economic class.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350017540

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#1

The life of Monroe, the original playgirl, followed a similar trajectory to that of her pin-up predecessor Bettie Page, who survived into old age but spent her final decades in a psychiatric institution. The most successful modern porn stars are also likely to have been sexually abused as children, to have been in foster care, and to have been victims of domestic violence.

#2

The sexual revolution was the liberation of women’s sexuality, but it was also the liberation of the playboy, who needed contraception and abortion in order to free his own libido.

#3

The sexual revolution of the 1960s stuck, and its ideology is now the ideological sea we swim in. It was able to persist because of the arrival, for the first time in the history of the world, of reliable contraception.

#4

I used to believe the liberal narrative, but after working at a rape crisis center, I realized that liberal feminism doesn’t take into account other forms of social stratification, particularly economic class.

#5

Post-liberals are critical of social liberalism, which seeks to free individuals from external constraints placed on them by location, family, religion, and tradition. They are also critical of the free market ideology that seeks to free individuals from all constraints in order to maximize their ability to work and consume.

#6

I will seek to answer some questions about freedom that liberal feminism can’t or won’t answer. We must ask instead how we can best promote the wellbeing of both men and women, given