FREEING SEX FROM LIBERTINES AND PURITANSJenny Holland
Journalist and speechwriter Jenny Holland argues that the liberal adjustments of the Sexual Revolution might no longer be fit for purpose. The internet, with its small group of ‘sexual radicals’, regularly exposes the masses to new, desensitising levels of exposure to explicit acts. Meanwhile, she argues, young people are having less sex than ever, and chasms are widening between men and women. Sexual freedom is not without its consequences, Jenny writes, and while excessive promiscuity can be physically and mentally harmful, extreme reactions from modern-day puritans don’t help, either. Instead, Jenny urges us to restore healthy levels of sexual inhibition, freeing the sexual landscape from either extreme.
Jenny Holland is an Irish-American, Gen X, former media journeyman and speechwriter who now writes Saving Culture (from itself) on Substack, and is a frequent contributor to spiked. Her first job in the news business was as an assistant at the New York Times, in the years immediately before the digital revolution, which was a bit like being one of the last people to board the lifeboats on the Titanic. Twenty years on, she frequently writes about watching the ship sink, from her small dinghy in the north Atlantic.
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