The first time I saw a full episode of Sex and the City, I was 15. It was on an old twelve-inch box television I’d appropriated when my parents upgraded theirs, and it sat on the drawers at the end of my bed, the volume turned way, way down so no one would hear me watching. Wrapped in my duvet I sat riveted but alert, poised to switch it off if I heard footsteps on the landing.
Bad sex was a big topic in 2022. Books like 'Rethinking Sex' and 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution' made conservative arguments against casual sex.