A review by sanamun
Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure by Lynne Segal

4.0

Though the book shows it's age at times (references to Thatcherism, unequal age of consent laws for gay men, and referring to queer/LGBT+ people exclusively as "lesbians and gay men"), this books is nonetheless an accessible and surprisingly relevant history and critique of feminist views of sexuality in the 20th century, and comes to a conclusion (about disentangling perceptions of sex, as well as specific roles and acts, from being coded as a particular gender, or from associating femininity with submission) which shows more nuance than either "yay sex positivity" or "porn culture is evil", even if it does go off on a weird tangent into Freudian psychoanalytic theory for maybe slightly too many pages.