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Hookup culture is a training ground for the expectations of motherhood

Hookup culture is a training ground for the expectations of motherhood

Amanda Montei's 'Touched Out' explores the overlaps of motherhood, consent, and misogyny—and it's revelatory.

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Aug 31, 2023
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Tracy Clark-Flory, author of the illuminating book Want Me, interviewed me about Touched Out for her wonderful newsletter. This week I'm sharing our conversation, which digs into the power of understanding writing as action, how sex prepares us for a certain version of motherhood, coercion, how we get to know our own desires, who benefits from keeping the subjects of sex and motherhood separate, and lots more. -
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Amanda Montei, author of “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”

When Amanda Montei was in high school, there was a party and a boy—a shy football player she had a crush on. They ended up alone in a bedroom on a mattress without sheets. “I imagined us falling in love, holding each other close, laughing and talking,” she writes. “But in…


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