Clockwise from left: Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City Season 2 (1999 Paramount Pictures)
Now, 22 years on, the landmark show is set to return without Samantha into a new pop-culture landscape, where many of our most pervasive cultural moments feature women speaking candidly about sex, from
Fleabag’s shamelessly libidinous narrator asking viewers “do I have a massive asshole?” to the women of
Girls Trip demonstrating the “grapefruit technique” to the sexually explicit lyrics of chart-topping songs such as Ariana Grande’s
34+35 or Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s
WAP.
And though elements of