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Christine Emba
OccupationNon-fiction writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University

Christine Emba is an opinion columnist and author based in Washington DC.[1]

Biography

Emba grew up in

Catholicism during her senior year at Princeton.[4] After graduating, she worked as a strategy analyst at the software corporation SAP, before serving as the deputy editor of the Economist Intelligence Unit and later a Hilton Kramer Fellow in criticism at The New Criterion.[5] In 2015, she joined The Washington Post as an opinion columnist, focusing on "ideas and society".[2]

Writing on sexual ethics

In March 2022, Emba released her book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, published through

sexual liberation.[3][7] In the same month, she wrote an opinion essay in The Washington Post titled "Consent is not enough. We need a new sexual ethic", taking excerpts from her book.[8][9]

In Rethinking Sex, Emba argues that the increased access to casual sex in our modern, sexually liberated society has left people—particularly women, but also men—feeling unhappy and unsatisfied.

online dating applications and that women have been dehumanized through the normalization of sexual choking and anal sex in pornography, leading to a bleak romantic landscape.[3][10] Emba states that while consent in sex is necessary, it is not enough; since even consensual sex can leave people feeling unhappy, she argues, consent cannot be "the only rule".[7][10]

Instead, she argues that we need a "new sexual ethic" that goes beyond consent. Borrowing from the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas (originally Aristotle), Emba advocates that in sex we should "will the good of the other": "Willing the good means caring enough about another person to consider how your actions might affect them – and then choosing not to act if the outcome would be negative. It's mutual concern – thinking about someone other than yourself and then working so their experience is as good as you hope yours to be." In this frame, there would be circumstances in which sex would be consensual, but nevertheless unethical and best avoided.[7][11][8]

Reception

bi woman, that leaves out a significant chunk of my experiences and that of others."[10][11] In a review for the Chicago Review of Books, Ben Clarke wrote that while Emba deserves credit for the issues in sex and consent that she raised, she deserves less credit for her solutions: "there is an urgent need for a rigorous, nuanced feminist analysis of the problems she identifies. This is not it."[13]

References

  1. ^ https://www.audible.com/author/Christine-Emba/B094NX6XK4#:~:text=Christine%20Emba%20is%20an%20opinion,She%20lives%20in%20Washington%2C%20DC.
  2. ^ a b "Christine Emba". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Schrobsdorff, Susanna (24 March 2022). "Why There's No Such Thing as Casual Sex". Time. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  4. ^ Liedl, Jonathon (8 April 2022). "Christine Emba's Socratic Sex Talk". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  5. ^ "The Hilton Kramer Fellowship". The New Criterion. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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  7. ^ a b c d Perry, Louise (11 April 2022). ""Sex means nothing, and everything": Christine Emba on consent, incels and modern dating". New Statesman. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  8. ^ a b Emba, Christine (17 March 2022). "Consent is not enough. We need a new sexual ethic". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  9. ^ McCracken, Amanda (9 April 2022). "Is the Next Phase of Sex Positivity Choosing Not to Have Sex?". Vogue. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  10. ^ a b c Iovine, Anna (2 April 2022). "Should we stop having casual sex?". Mashable. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  11. ^ a b c Martin, Jennifer C. (25 April 2022). "We Can 'Rethink Sex' Without Reviving Purity Culture". Sojourners. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  12. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (21 March 2022). "A Manifesto Against Sex Positivity". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  13. ^ Clarke, Ben (23 March 2022). "Distorting Conclusions in "Rethinking Sex"". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 27 April 2022.

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