Sign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday(Not much) sex in the cityAnd just like that, nobody’s having sex any more. Perhaps most interesting and worrying, however, is the researchers’ hypothesis that the mainstreaming of extremely rough sex could be putting a generation of young people off sex altogether. Pornography has played a big role in this, but women’s magazines and popular culture (50 Shades of Grey, for example) have also helped to make rough sex “trendy”. “Rough sex gone wrong” has become a worryingly common cover for femicide. To be clear: there’s nothing wrong with rough sex as long as it’s truly consensual.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2022 20:26 UTC