We need to talk about sex

The sexual revolution and second-wave feminism were supposed to
empower women in society—and in the bedroom. So why are so many
millennial women miserable when it comes to their dating and sex
lives? Even after the #MeToo movement enshrined “enthusiastic
consent” as the baseline requirement for sexual encounters, women
(and men) continue to have sex they don’t really want and don’t
enjoy.  This week, we talk to Christine Emba, herself a
millennial woman, who has surveyed this bleak landscape and think
we need to build a new sexual ethic based on empathy and “seeking
the good of the other.” Christine is a columnist for The Washington
Post and the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation. We ask her
why consent is not enough to guarantee ethical sex, how young
Catholics can have conversations around these fraught issues and
what values a healthier sexual culture would uphold.  No Signs
of the Times or faith-sharing this week—but that doesn’t mean there
was not a lot of Catholic news! Check out some of the great work
being done by our America colleagues in the links below. 
Links from the show: Rethinking Sex: A Provocation  Bishops
have frank conversations with lay theologians about Pope Francis,
U.S. Church and Vatican II in semi-off-the-record meeting What it
means to be a woman — from a Catholic perspective Roundtable:
Indigenous abuse survivors on truth, reconciliation and the need
for a papal apology Former Jesuit superior of Ukraine: ‘Putin is
destroying the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.’ Join Jesuitical
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