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Rethinking Sex A Provocation

Christine Emba

Part searing examination, part call to arms—a bold case against modern sexual ethics, from young For years now, modern-day sexual ethics has held that “anything goes” when it comes to sex—as long as everyone says yes, and does so enthusiastically. So why, even when consent has been ascertained, are...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein introduced the author and noted that the title was a provocation that explored the orgasm gap and the decline of good sex in hookup culture. He mentioned the book across three episodes, highlighting its focus on rethinking sexual norms, but did not offer a strong endorsement.

Episode: Manliness, Cat Ladies, Fertility Panic and the 202...

Emba introduced herself as the author of the provocation titled Rethinking Sex.

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Christine Emba is a staff writer at the Atlantic and the author of Rethinking Sex, a provocation.

Episode: Michelle Goldberg Grapples With Feminism After Roe

Ezra noted that Christine Emba, a Washington Post columnist, had just released a new book titled Rethinking Sex.

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Christine Emba, a young Washington Post columnist has a new book called Rethinking Sex. There's a new British book that's going to be released in the United States relatively soon called The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. There's Nona Willis Aronowitz's book called Bad Sex.

Episode: Sex, Abortion and Feminism, as Seen From the Right

Emba's book was referenced as examining the orgasm gap and the decline of good sex in hookup culture.

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Christine Emba's new book, I think it's called Rethinking Sex, The Provocation, she... has some data about the real orgasm gap that you see in the casual sex culture today.

Modern Wisdom

It was published last spring and explored sexual culture, relationships, consent, and sexual ethics. Emba discussed how the feminist movement's trajectory had evolved.

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Yeah, so I wrote a book, Rethinking Sex, A Provocation.

— Episode: #664 - Christine Emba - Talking To A Fem...

Episode: #664 - Christine Emba - Talking To A Feminist Abou...

It was published last spring and explored sexual culture, relationships, consent, and sexual ethics. Emba discussed how the feminist movement's trajectory had evolved.

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Yeah, so I wrote a book, Rethinking Sex, A Provocation.

It came out last spring and it was basically about our sexual culture and our relationship culture and questions of consent and sexual ethics.

But this is one thing that I spent a lot of time thinking about and writing about in the book actually, this idea that the feminist movement kind of shifted over time in a way that I don't necessarily think was positive.

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

It was written around the Me Too movement and explored whether the sexual revolution and feminism delivered the results expected, particularly through the lens of women's dissatisfaction with dating and sexual culture.

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Rethinking Sex of Provocation is the title of my first book, which I started writing around the time of kind of the Me Too moment crisis revolution.

— Episode: Office Hours Special: Algebra of Masculi...

Episode: Office Hours Special: Algebra of Masculinity Part...

It was written around the Me Too movement and explored whether the sexual revolution and feminism delivered the results expected, particularly through the lens of women's dissatisfaction with dating and sexual culture.

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Rethinking Sex of Provocation is the title of my first book, which I started writing around the time of kind of the Me Too moment crisis revolution.

And it was basically a look at whether, you know, the sexual revolution and the feminist movement had brought us to where we thought we were going to go, had delivered the results that we wanted.

It was kind of a critique of our current sexual culture. And I told the story through mainly through the lens of women as I interviewed just a ton of women about their dissatisfactions with the current dating scene with the sexual culture, with what was expected of them and what they couldn't expect.

Christine Emba is a columnist of the Washington Post where she writes about ideas in society for the opinion section. Christine is the author of Rethinking Sex, A Provocation.

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Tiana Loh-Descher mentioned Christine Emba's book on the sexual revolution, but did not specify the title.

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And that was like a big conversation with Christine Emba's book when she was talking about like, was like the sexual revolution a failure or not?

— Episode: The Karol Markowicz Show: The Impact of...

Episode: The Karol Markowicz Show: The Impact of Government...

Tiana Loh-Descher mentioned Christine Emba's book on the sexual revolution, but did not specify the title.

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And that was like a big conversation with Christine Emba's book when she was talking about like, was like the sexual revolution a failure or not?

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