{"id":7715,"date":"2018-07-01T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2018-07-01T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:23:06","slug":"sex-and-the-balance-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7715\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sends me a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/arcdigital.media\/sex-was-never-safe-b564cf8f798e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> discussing sex and consent in the modern era. The author is making the case that the sexual revolution has been a failure for women and, in their own words, made them less safe. It&#8217;s an interesting hypothesis, but undermined considerably by this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most importantly, we have learned that men almost always hold power in sexual situations with women and the subsequent narratives about those situations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who thinks women don&#8217;t hold power in sexual situations probably shouldn&#8217;t be writing on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sends me a link to this article discussing sex and consent in the modern era. The author is making the case that the sexual revolution has been a failure for women and, in their own words, made them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7715\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,87,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7717,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions\/7717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}