Susanna Rustin

Why should advocating sexual restraint be ridiculed?

Louise Perry has been mocked as the new Mary Whitehouse, but her ‘post-liberal feminism’ simply reflects what most women want

Women, beware drinking in mixed company, says Louise Perry. A night out in Liverpool’s Bold Street, October 2009. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 09 July 2022
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  • The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

    Louise Perry

    Polity Press, pp. 200, £16

Louise Perry is on a mission: ‘It wasn’t enough just to point out the problems with our new sexual culture,’ she declares at the start of her punchy first book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. So she offers advice as well to the young women she believes have been ‘utterly failed by liberal feminism’.

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