Categories: SelfRelationships

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


by Roe McDermott
24th Jan 2024

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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