The Sex Expert: "Casual Sex Is Almost Always Dangerous For Women!" - Louise Perry

TL;DR

Louise Perry argues that the sexual revolution, enabled by the pill, has disproportionately benefited a small subset of men while creating a culture of casual sex that is almost always more risky for women due to physical asymmetries, pregnancy costs, and women’s stronger emotional bonding from sex.

Key insights

• The pill’s arrival in the 1960s was a transformative technology that allowed women to separate sex from pregnancy, but it also shifted the default from “not having sex on a date” to “negotiating sex,”
• Testosterone curves in men (peaking in teens–20s, declining in 30s) mirror the peak ages of perpetration of sexual violence and other violent crime; the evidence suggests rape is fundamentally a biolo
• Women have a lower disgust threshold than men, which makes them more likely to feel disgust after unwanted but consensual sex—an evolved response to the high cost of pregnancy.