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Damian Maher

Damian Maher

Damian Maher is a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. 

Damian Maher reviews 'The Right to Sex' by Amia Srinivasan

September 2021, no. 435 23 August 2021
The feminist philosopher Nancy Bauer once asked her female students why they spend ‘their weekend evenings giving unreciprocated blow jobs to drunken frat boys’. They tell her that ‘they enjoy the sense of power it gives them. You doll yourself up and get some guy helplessly aroused, at which point you could just walk away. But you don’t.’  The question Bauer wants to ask, but can’t, ... (read more)