A review by emmaliborski
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent, by Katherine Angel
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Katherine Angel did a wonderful job injecting nuance into a weighty topic and anchored her points with fascinating history and research. This is a quick but dense read, one that resulted in more questions than answers for me- in a great way. It's reoriented the way I think about the limitations of consent culture, perceived differences in men and women's sexuality, and confidence culture's fixation on fully knowing oneself and one's desires as a prerequisite for having a good sex life.
"The fantasy of total autonomy and total self-knowledge is not only a fantasy...it's a nightmare...Working out what we want is a life's work, and it has to be done over and over and over. The joy may lie in it never being done."
"The fantasy of total autonomy and total self-knowledge is not only a fantasy...it's a nightmare...Working out what we want is a life's work, and it has to be done over and over and over. The joy may lie in it never being done."