A review by outcolder
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

5.0

I loved this! How can we eliminate men's violence against women, be sex-positive and foster a freedom of desire, experience true love, all the good stuff... asking these questions with a sensitive eye for intersectionality and invoking prison abolition. Maybe it's a lot of Angela Davis territory, but it's from a younger, more Internet-savvy perspective and just a cracking read. I whipped through it and was sad when it was over. I'm lucky, because I read this when some friends said they want to discuss it, so now I get to discuss it with friends! Although... I'm a bit nervous to talk about desire... I'm kind of shy... but it's a real, serious issue for us heterodudes, to feel authentically wanted, and not land somewhere on a spectrum from 'she is only doing this to get it over with,' through 'she is only doing this because she believes it's expected of her,' on over to 'she actually does want to do this, but, how exactly when our whole sexuality is so porn-imprinted?' There's no clear answer, of course, but this book definitely is asking the right questions. Philosophy!

The chapter on not sleeping with your students is another banger. I've been working in a university for twenty years. I really liked what Srinivasan had to say about it.