The right to sex

What would it take to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological, and physical subordination of women? And: what would it take for sex to be free? These are fundamental, thorny questions. They are, according to Amia Srinivasan, the questions that lead feminism not so much as a theoretical endeavor, but first and foremost as a political movement. Although The Right to Sex announces that it is going to address these questions in its preface, Srinivasan admits that she does not know how to answer them – ‘let’s try and see’ (p. xiii). The hesitation is not merely rhetorical. It also means that, as societies and communities, we still have to think, to discuss, but, mostly, to struggle and to conduct ‘experiments of living’ (p. 102) in order to realize desirable and plausible answers.