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736 reviews for:
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Katherine Angel
4.04 AVERAGE
736 reviews for:
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Katherine Angel
4.04 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This was quite good but did not reach the sex ed peak of Come as you are. It did raise some very good points that I hadnt yet come across but I have been looking for about consent. That it is not fixed but fluid and we should not have to know in advance how we will react to something before it happens, even if it might seem hot, but that should not stop us from feeling safe to say no in the moment.
A well-written series of essays that would form a reasonable introduction to feminist conceptions of consent and desire. However, I didn't learn anything new from it, and found it didn't answer the questions I have. Perhaps going back to Foucault, who initially wrote the line that "tomorrow, sex will be good again", would be more interesting (if more dense).
informative
medium-paced
medium-paced
informative
reflective
Katherine Angel does a wonderful job of exploring the complex, elusive, and sometimes contradictory aspects of sexuality and consent. The information and arguments are easily digestible and engaging without losing nuance.
This put a lot of the complicated feelings and experiences of being a woman into words for me.
This put a lot of the complicated feelings and experiences of being a woman into words for me.
A really well-crafted discussion and exploration of consent, desire and vulnerability in sex. At times this reads like quite an academic text but it's never dry, and always thought-provoking. Chock full of really interesting points considered from different angles. I really appreciated that Angel acknowledged that she was mostly working with the perspectives of cis women rather than writing something that claimed an absolute almost-empirical universality without addressing her own experiences lying beneath. It was all the richer for it, and still had plenty that's relevant far beyond this.
« consent culture privilèges a gutsy woman who knows what she wants and can shout it from the rooftops; a woman who can simply set aside the imbalances of power and pleasure in the world, access and voicing her desire with confidence »
there is a paradox: positive consent rhetoric vs confident feminism where weakness or insecurity must be avoided
« we don’t always know what we want and we are not always able to express our desires clearly… it is in the nature of desire to be social, emergent, and responsive »
our desires emerge in relation to those who care, or don’t care, for us. desire never exists in isolation
« self-knowledge is not a reliable feature of female sexuality… in fact, it is not a reliable feature of being a person »
flawed human sexual response cycle: desire - arousal - orgasm
« many experience desire not as a spontaneous event, but as a state that emerges in response to stimulation and arousal »
« we must not think of a person’s desire as some easily identifiable object, some easily accessible part of a person which they can summon up with ease. sex is made up of countless acts of questioning, expression, and exploration »
there is a paradox: positive consent rhetoric vs confident feminism where weakness or insecurity must be avoided
« we don’t always know what we want and we are not always able to express our desires clearly… it is in the nature of desire to be social, emergent, and responsive »
our desires emerge in relation to those who care, or don’t care, for us. desire never exists in isolation
« self-knowledge is not a reliable feature of female sexuality… in fact, it is not a reliable feature of being a person »
flawed human sexual response cycle: desire - arousal - orgasm
« many experience desire not as a spontaneous event, but as a state that emerges in response to stimulation and arousal »
« we must not think of a person’s desire as some easily identifiable object, some easily accessible part of a person which they can summon up with ease. sex is made up of countless acts of questioning, expression, and exploration »
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