Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel
21 reviews
sogrossreads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Solid read. Very encouraging and validating to hear.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual assault
azraelmaya's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault
sophiewho's review against another edition
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual harassment
violetends's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This was fun, heavy, heartbreaking and empowering all at the same time. This was so well researched, phrased and structured that I don't really know what to say except that it does exactly what it promises and it does it incredibly well. This is a concise and at times painful analysis of consent, sexualized violence, gendered roles and experiences, political events, popcultural media, historical developments and movements and most of all, a clever and well-crafted answer to many (anti-feminist) rhetorical claims about women's positions and experiences around sex and consent. The author stresses that she can only speak on behalf of a very specific experience which is why she regularly quotes writers that have added queer and/or BIPoC perspective to discussions on these topics and I appreciate that transparency and acknowledgement.
I'm already looking forward to Katherine Angel's future writing.
I'm already looking forward to Katherine Angel's future writing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Classism, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexism
stevia333k's review against another edition
The book opens up with a literary analysis of a porno from James Deen's website where he asks viewers/amateurs to submit an application "to have sex with James Deen". James Deen is acknowledged to have over a dozen victims he SA'd come forward. So mind you he's likely the one writing the script that's being analyzed here as describing common experiences of pleasure & internalized slut shaming.
At 10:33 the author acknowledges she didn't do the legalism research, that she took the porno for face value. The problem is, professional regulations are you arrange for what acts what limits are involved before the scene starts. The fact the actress's face is on camera is ... Ugh. If the set up she talked about is actually non-fictional footage, then that would be a highly illegal set-up.
Point being, studios have to keep records of contracts such as ages of performers etc. Like every porn site has info like a Title 2257, and address for conducting business. The author could've prioritized getting the "real" information involved in shooting that scene. In fact, she could've chosen any porno scene filmed, she'd have a variety of studios to choose from. But instead, she treats the fictional movie made by a actor/director/editor with a history of abuse at face value.
This book is therefore unreliable as fuck! Lacking the context of how porno production is professionally conducted when you talk about an actor's/director's dangerousness & then choose a work by them to use for what's literary analysis, it's whorephobia, and it's definitely classist.
Seriously, we could've been talking about dealing with the contradiction between continuously-required consent & contractual obligations, but Katherine Angel doesn't even try to get the contractual information. She just wanted to do literary analysis on a porno in order to trigger people's sex drive when we're trying to talk about oppression.
So yeah, very I didn't know patriarchy existed until I saw segregation among brown people in Afghanistan when you're a normative white woman vibes. I call this conservative bullshit if not also neoliberal bullshit. Frankly, I don't give enough of a shit to waste good time after bad.
At 10:33 the author acknowledges she didn't do the legalism research, that she took the porno for face value. The problem is, professional regulations are you arrange for what acts what limits are involved before the scene starts. The fact the actress's face is on camera is ... Ugh. If the set up she talked about is actually non-fictional footage, then that would be a highly illegal set-up.
Point being, studios have to keep records of contracts such as ages of performers etc. Like every porn site has info like a Title 2257, and address for conducting business. The author could've prioritized getting the "real" information involved in shooting that scene. In fact, she could've chosen any porno scene filmed, she'd have a variety of studios to choose from. But instead, she treats the fictional movie made by a actor/director/editor with a history of abuse at face value.
This book is therefore unreliable as fuck! Lacking the context of how porno production is professionally conducted when you talk about an actor's/director's dangerousness & then choose a work by them to use for what's literary analysis, it's whorephobia, and it's definitely classist.
Seriously, we could've been talking about dealing with the contradiction between continuously-required consent & contractual obligations, but Katherine Angel doesn't even try to get the contractual information. She just wanted to do literary analysis on a porno in order to trigger people's sex drive when we're trying to talk about oppression.
So yeah, very I didn't know patriarchy existed until I saw segregation among brown people in Afghanistan when you're a normative white woman vibes. I call this conservative bullshit if not also neoliberal bullshit. Frankly, I don't give enough of a shit to waste good time after bad.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Classism, and Sexual content
lesenilpferd's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Sexual violence
ivulikkivulik's review against another edition
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape
jourdanicus's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
The level of nuance Katherine Angel brings to the fraught topics of sex and consent is incredibly refreshing. I got a lot out of reading this book. It has already both cemented how I thought about sex and consent and further influenced my thinking. I imagine it will have an effect on my views for a long time to come.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
lenin_lover_69's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Was prepared to like this and learn something but ultimately found it quite hard to read and take in...increasingly have less time for Very Serious analytical non fiction that reads like someone's masters thesis edited into a book. Authors like Lola Olufemi, Shon Faye and Amelia Horgan have shown how you can approach complex social justice issues in an accessible, readable and often funny way! They've really set the benchmark for me and I think this book is the poorer for its tone, which I think sits closer to some of the writers from the aughts/2010s she references e.g. Jessica Valenti.
I did like the discussion around how we shouldnt always have to know what it is we want and that there is excitement and eroticism in that unknowing. Also had never really thought about arousal and how it is conflated with desire.
I did like the discussion around how we shouldnt always have to know what it is we want and that there is excitement and eroticism in that unknowing. Also had never really thought about arousal and how it is conflated with desire.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault