Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again Women and Desire in the Age of Consent Katherine Angel First published by Verso 2021 © Katherine Angel 2021 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-916-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-918-4 (UK EBK) ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-919-1 (US EBK) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Control Number: 2020948729 Typeset in Sabon by MJ & N Gavan, Truro, Cornwall Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY For Allie, Cassie, Mitzi, and Sasha I do not find it helpful to present her – or indeed any woman – as either on top of or succumbing to her demons, as though her only options were triumph or defeat (a military vocabulary which could not be further from her own). – Jacqueline Rose, ‘Respect: Marilyn Monroe’, Women in Dark Times Contents 1. On Consent 2. On Desire 3. On Arousal 4. On Vulnerability Acknowledgements Notes