A review by sammy_
Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl

1.0

Some of Roald Dahl’s books (children’s and adult) are amongst my favourites of all time, but this collection of short stories written for Playboy in the 1960s and 1970s was unpleasant in their time and still unpleasant now. Described as a set of stories about “sexual deception,” they’re essentially about tricking women into non-consensual sex, but it’s okay, because they like it in the end. For example, two husbands propose to secretly swap places and sleep with each other’s wives in the dark (and promptly do).

I have already had to reassess Roald Dahl’s legacy in light of his resurfaced anti-Semitic comments, and this book has reminded me that lots of his (particularly adult) work also has a streak of misogyny (or worse) which adds to that complicated legacy.