Lola Salem is an Oxonian academic and art critic
GIVEN THE INITIAL REACTIONS on social media to an extract from Louise Perry’s new book, there is reason to wager that The Case Against the Sexual Revolution will provoke waves. Perry affirms, however, that she’s merely seeking to inject some “common sense” into some of today’s hottest debates: the differences and sense of harmony between men and women; the nature and telos of desire; love within sexual relationships; the issue of consent as a grail for balancing sexuality’s chaos; the consequences of violence’s glamourisation; the commodification of people; the benefits of marital institution.
Nothing in Perry’s book should truly be “ground-breaking” to anyone. Her closing remarks bang this
