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Forget about consensual sex, where’s the care-filled sex?


by Roe McDermott
24th Jan 2024

Photo by Abstral Official on Unsplash

Recent films, books and podcasts are highlighting how women are left feeling vulnerable and even violated due to a lack of care during sex.

The title of Molly Manning-Walker’s film How To Have Sex could not be more painfully ironic.    In Manning-Walker’s 2023 critically acclaimed drama, sixteen-year-old English student Tara (a sublime Mia Mckenna-Bruce) is eager to have sex for the first time, and the perfect occasion has finally arisen. Tara is on a post-exams holiday with her friends in the party resort of Malia in Crete, where they’re surrounded by thousands of other students, all giddy on pheromones,...

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