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It’s tempting to insist that women are themselves the authority on their desires; that they categorically know what they want. But is anyone an authority on themselves, whether on their sexuality or anything else? I don’t think so – and I’m not sure that insisting so gets us very far. Women are not the authority on themselves – not because they, unlike men, have difficulty detecting their ‘true’ desires, but because no one, perhaps especially when it comes to sex, is an authority on themselves. In Vendredi Soir, Claire Denis’s film adaptation of Emmanuelle Bernheim’s novel, Laure is moving out of her flat where she lives alone. We see her packing up boxes to move in with her boyfriend the next morning; after spending a while mulling over outfits, choosing what to give away and what to keep, she gets in her car to drive to some friends’ for dinner. It’s a foul night – torrential rain and a transport strike have the roads in gridlock.
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Your roadmap to a better sex life As lockdown fades, we're faced with the daunting task of climbing out of a sex recession. Katherine Angel’s new book is here to help 27 February 2021 • 5:00am ‘Even after all this time, I still think sex is a really weird and mysterious force’ Credit: Rii Schroer/The Telegraph As soon as lockdown lifts, I will be reading Katherine Angel’s new book in cafés and on park benches – if only to enjoy the look on people’s faces. Just imagine the curiosity that the title, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again – a sardonic quote borrowed from the French philosopher Michel Foucault – would prompt. When did sex stop being good and why? Was it when the pandemic-hit British libido fell off a cliff, plunging the country into what experts are now calling “a sex recession”? If so, how can we possibly hope to make it good again… by tomorrow?
In December 2012, a website appeared seemingly advertising a new line of lingerie in the Victoria’s Secret “Pink” collection. The site, pinklovesconsent.com, showed images of brightly coloured underwear emblazoned with slogans such as “No Means No”, “Ask First” and “Consent is Sexy”. “Victoria’s Secret is using its nationally recognised image to lead the country in the next sexual revolution: CONSENT,” a press release about the website declared. Victoria’s Secret had produced no such underwear. The site was created by Force, “a collective dedicated to constructing a culture of consent”, which objected to the brand’s very real thongs embellished with the phrase “Sure Thing”. Lawyers representing Victoria’s Secret had the fake website swiftly removed. But a few years later, as brands began to capitalise on popular feminist messaging to sell products, the idea of pro-consent lingerie seemed far from outlandish. In 2015 the