Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Sophie Saint Thomas at Queer Majority about if feminism is starting to resemble the religious right.
A Generational Shift?
“I’ve seen some narratives about how Gen Z, more than any other generation, has had chronic exposure to porn, and that it’s not that they’re sex-negative, it’s that they feel too inundated with sexuality,” Jesse Kahn, director of the Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center in New York, told me. Kahn notes that we should caution against the word “negativity”, and instead use words like “shift” and “evolution” in sexual norms. “I think intergenerationally, there are issues related to language and how we understand each other. I don’t think we need to perceive a change as a threat or as negative until we understand it more.” Kahn doesn’t think that the religious right and this rise are particularly connected, citing different motivations. “Generally speaking, it’s very common for generations to respond to other generations, either in opposing directions or pushing the agenda farther.”