January 2012
"Taking it Slow"
So sometimes I like to give unwanted sex advice, and this is one of those times.
I was taking a shower just a few minutes ago, when that song… “A Kiss in the Moonlight?”… something like that - by Lady Antebellum came on the radio. One of the lines to that song says “I don’t wanna rush this/let’s just take it slow.”
I want to address this idea of...
“[…] the first sexual revolution was characterised by an extraordinary reversal...”
– Extracts from The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution by Faramerz Dabhoiwala, which’ll be published on 2 Feb 2012.
I wish ideas like these were more widely known - that it was common knowledge quite how culturally contingent and historically specific our attitudes to gender and...
