![]() The notion that the personal is political was of course central to the second-wave feminists of the 1960s and ’70s, whose critiques of sex Srinivasan takes inspiration from here, even if she doesn’t always agree with them. But Srinivasan, a professor of social and political theory at Oxford, wants us to think more fully about sex, as a personal experience with social implications: “Sex, which we think of as the most private of acts, is in reality a public thing.” Talk about it, yes argue over it, most definitely. Americans don’t think about sex nearly enough - this occurred to me after reading “The Right to Sex,” Amia Srinivasan’s quietly dazzling new essay collection. ![]()
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