The problem with the 4B movement is that it plays into the idea that sex is labour: work women do for men, writes the sociologist Finn Mackay
The problem with the 4B movement is that it plays into the idea that sex is labour: work women do for menince Trump’s election win in the US, the idea of a “sex strike”, linked to a form of women’s activism that began in South Korea, has taken hold on social media. Like many things that become a mainstream buzzword, it is in fact about much more than the literal meaning of those words.
The main problem with the idea of a women’s sex strike is that rape exists. Much of the commentary in response to women’s videos and content openly makes this point, as young men reply that women don’t always have a choice. The slogan “your body, my choice”, which has circulated online since Trump’s victory, bleakly summarises this stance.
Political lesbianism in the UK, meanwhile, can be traced back to a document titled Love Your Enemy?, which started life as a conference paper for a, written by a collective of radical and revolutionary feminists based in Leeds, Yorkshire. It was distributed in 1979 in Wires, the national feminist newsletter of the Women’s Information and Referral Enquiry Service.
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