Episode notes

I speak with social commentator Bettina Arndt - who famously started off as Australia's first public sex therapist and "the person most strongly identified with Australia's sexual revolution", but who has now become a controversial critic of modern feminism.

Among the topics we cover:

  • Bettina's family history, why that shaped her view of the world, and how she and her father were very much at the heard of modern Australian liberalism
  • Why she first got interested in sex, academically speaking
  • Whether he attitude towards the sexual revolution has changed
  • Whether there is a concerned campaign to delegitimise her and her work
  • Why has the relationship between the sexes has become so politicised and whether it should necessarily be so
  • Whether there ways the relationship between the sexes can be ... 
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Keywords
liberalismaustraliabettina arndtfeminismsexual revolution