How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.

Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. To grasp sex in all its complexity – its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and power – we need to move beyond 'yes and no', wanted and unwanted.

We need to interrogate the fraught relationships between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation. We need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon.

Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one.

我们应该如何谈论性？它是我们拥有的东西，也是我们做的事情；一个所谓的私人行为，充满了公共意义；一个由外部力量塑造的个人偏好；一个快乐和道德可以疯狂拉开的地方。

自从#MeToo以来，许多人都把同意作为实现性正义的关键框架。然而，同意是一个钝的工具。为了掌握性的所有复杂性--其深刻的矛盾性，其与性别、阶级、种族和权力的关系--我们需要超越 "是和不是"，想要和不想要。

我们需要审视歧视与偏好、色情与自由、强奸与种族不公、惩罚与问责、快乐与权力、资本主义与解放之间充满矛盾的关系。我们需要将性作为一种政治现象重新思考。

性的权利》是对这个世界上性的政治和伦理的里程碑式的审视，是对另一个世界的希望的激发。