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

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