Louise Perry: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Sponsor break: the Soho Forum and Lou's book
2:06 – Intro: Louise Perry on the sexual revolution
4:15 – What the sexual revolution was and the pill
8:54 – How effective is the pill, really?
10:14 – Why the pill led to more abortions and single mothers
12:42 – Casual sex without birth control
14:38 – Women who never tell the man about a pregnancy
16:54 – A sexual culture built around male desire
18:30 – Gay male culture vs. lesbian culture
20:37 – Denying sex differences
21:50 – Feminism, evolutionary psychology, and the truth
24:23 – Does she call herself a feminist?
27:12 – JK Rowling, Kathleen Stock, and Helen Joyce
28:39 – Why UK and US feminists split on gender issues
31:04 – The hate aimed at JK Rowling
32:41 – Gender-neutral modern life and trans ideology
36:04 – Lia Thomas and allyship
37:51 – Young vs. older women, dinosaurs, and Posie Parker
40:43 – Misogynistic abuse and leftist "traitors"
43:43 – Ray Blanchard and The Man Who Would Be Queen
50:39 – Abandoning shame and demanding acceptance
52:23 – Seeing the world through a toddler's eyes
54:24 – The hedonic treadmill and the joy of children
55:29 – Wrap-up and sponsors
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Louise Perry, author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, joins Lou to talk about what the sexual revolution actually was, the pill, a sexual culture built around male desire, and where feminism went wrong.
We also get into how effective the pill really is, why it led to more abortions and single mothers, gay male culture versus lesbian culture, denying sex differences, whether she calls herself a feminist, JK Rowling, Kathleen Stock, and Helen Joyce, why UK and US feminists split on gender, Lia Thomas and allyship, Ray Blanchard and The Man Who Would Be Queen, seeing the world through a toddler's eyes, and the joy of children.