The combination of the birth control pill and the sexual revolution have dramatically changed the way men and women interact. The promise was nothing short of total liberation: women freed from the animal reproductive cycle, marriages based on love and mutual respect between equals, and an end to loneliness and sexual jealousy. More than a half-century later, however, the voices of discontent are growing louder. In The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, journalist and anti-rape campaigner Louise Perry surveys a sorry landscape of discontented women, lonely, porn-obsessed young men, and abusers cloaking their misdeeds in the language of "sex positivity." On balance, has the sexual revolution been a positive or negative? We discuss. 

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