Book Interview: A feminist challenge to modern thinking on sex

“Porn is to sex as McDonald’s is to food. These two capitalist enterprises take our natural appetites, pluck out the most compulsive and addictive elements, strip away anything truly nutritious, and then encourage us to consume more and more.”

Louise Perry worked in a rape crisis centre after she had finished her degree in Women’s Studies at Oxford: “I just found the difference between feminist theory and the reality of frontline services amazing.”

• The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
• Louise Perry
• Polity Press, £16.99