kindajason’s Reviews > The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century > Status Update

Exceedingly impressed by Srinivasan's ability to simultaneously hold, develop, and explore multiple big ideas, even when they seem contradictory. The titular essay in particular is required reading !!!

"The task for feminism: to treat as axiomatic our free sexual choices while also acknowledging why such choices under patriarchy are rarely free. We cannot let our rush to do the former risk us forgetting the latter."

Is porn a tool of patriarchy or a counter to sexual repression? A tactic of subordination or an exercise of free speech?

Could restrictions meant to help one disempowered group in the fight for social equality in practice be misused to oppress sexual minorities?

Whatever the law states, porn will be made, bought, & sold. What matters most isn't what the law says about porn, but how it affects those who work in it.

Can a carceral approach that stsyemically harms poor people & poc serve sexual justice? To what extent should the notion of due process & the assumption of innocence be applied to social media/public accusations? Do the politics of "believe women" in its current form collide with the politics of intersectionality?

We must ask difficult questions if we want to end male sexual domination rather than just punish it.

so excited to finally start this. truly inclusionary politics is uncomfortable and i am excited to see how Srinivasan challenges my understanding of intersectionality and desire. sex is political and there's nothing you can do to escape that!