Went into your your thinking when you decided to take on this project. Donna first thanks so much for having me here. Its really exciting to talk to you about this. I know weve had previous conversations on the topic around your own book. So its exciting to see this meeting of mind i suppose. Why did i decide to write rethinking sex . Well, im in opinion columnist the Washington Post and my beat has always been ideas in society, and ive always been interesting questions of morality and culture and ethics and also just how we relate to each other. So i was writing a number of columns during the Metoo Movement at its height 20172018 and it became clear that with the most high profile cases Harvey Weinstein etc. There were problems that we thought the sexual revolution and feminist movements might have solved concerning consent that still very present. But more than that. There came to light these cases that were not so clear cases of sex that werent not necessarily unconsensual but conse
Meeting of mind i suppose. Why did i decide to write rethinking sex . Well, im in opinion columnist the Washington Post and my beat has always been ideas in society, and ive always been interesting questions of morality and culture and ethics and also just how we relate to each other. So i was writing a number of columns during the Metoo Movement at its height 20172018 and it became clear that with the most high profile cases Harvey Weinstein etc. There were problems that we thought the sexual revolution and feminist movements might have solved concerning consent that still very present. But more than that. There came to light these cases that were not so clear cases of sex that werent not necessarily unconsensual but consensual and yet still bad degrading traumatizing and so many women related to these stories stories like cat person the new yorker short piece of fiction that i think is still their most red piece fiction piece of short fiction ever. And there was a general sense among
So its exciting to see this meeting of mind i suppose. Why did i decide to write rethinking sex . Well, im in opinion columnist the Washington Post and my beat has always been ideas in society, and ive always been interesting questions of morality and culture and ethics and also just how we relate to each other. So i was writing a number of columns during the Metoo Movement at its height 20172018 and it became clear that with the most high profile cases Harvey Weinstein etc. There were problems that we thought the sexual revolution and feminist movements might have solved concerning consent that still very present. But more than that. There came to light these cases that were not so clear cases of sex that werent not necessarily unconsensual but consensual and yet still bad degrading traumatizing and so many women related to these stories stories like cat person the new yorker short piece of fiction that i think is still their most red piece fiction piece of short fiction ever. And the
So its exciting to see this meeting of mind i suppose. Why did i decide to write rethinking sex . Well, im in opinion columnist the Washington Post and my beat has always been ideas in society, and ive always been interesting questions of morality and culture and ethics and also just how we relate to each other. So i was writing a number of columns during the Metoo Movement at its height 20172018 and it became clear that with the most high profile cases Harvey Weinstein etc. There were problems that we thought the sexual revolution and feminist movements might have solved concerning consent that still very present. But more than that. There came to light these cases that were not so clear cases of sex that werent not necessarily unconsensual but consensual and yet still bad degrading traumatizing and so many women related to these stories stories like cat person the new yorker short piece of fiction that i think is still their most red piece fiction piece of short fiction ever. And the
You about this. I know weve had previous conversations on the topic around your own book. So its exciting to see this meeting of mind i suppose. Why did i decide to write rethinking sex . Well, im in opinion columnist the Washington Post and my beat has always been ideas in society, and ive always been interesting questions of morality and culture and ethics and also just how we relate to each other. So i was writing a number of columns during the Metoo Movement at its height 20172018 and it became clear that with the most high profile cases Harvey Weinstein etc. There were problems that we thought the sexual revolution and feminist movements might have solved concerning consent that still very present. But more than that. There came to light these cases that were not so clear cases of sex that werent not necessarily unconsensual but consensual and yet still bad degrading traumatizing and so many women related to these stories stories like cat person the new yorker short piece of ficti