Readers of a certain age will know the answer instinctively. Unfortunately, most people are under a certain age, and very confused about sex, love, and biological imperatives.
That’s what Louise Perry writes in a new book, excerpted today as an essay at The Free Press. In the essay, A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century sounds a lot like the old guide to sex in the 20th century before The Pill upended everything about humans and sexual relations. Perry argues — correctly — that women and men want different outcomes from socialization, and decades of attempting what Erica Jong promoted in her 1973 novel Fear of Flying as the “zipless f***” still leads women astray.
It’s still getting pushed by feminists to this day, as Perry points out:
Hookup culture benefits some men, at the expense of most women.
That’s because male sexuality and female sexuality, at…
