Esther Perel on the erotics of uncertaintyPlus: a reality-TV 'bad boy' gets his own series, America's pleasure drought, debating Gen Z sexlessness, replacing sex-ed with marriage propaganda, and more in the roundup.
It’s a link roundup! We’ve got Esther Perel on the erotics of uncertainty, Netflix doubles down on the drama of taming the “bad boy,” the Trump administration replaces sex-ed with pronatalist marriage propaganda, and more. Work one-on-one with meI have only a few spots left for private writing clients for August. Lemme help you start or finish your book (or personal essay) before the summer is over. More here. Relatedly, I’ve been loving Clare Carlisle’s Transcendence for Beginners, and she writes that “writing a book (like raising a child) confronts me with my mortality, haunts me with the fear that I might not live long enough to finish it—and then fills me with relief when it turns out that there was indeed enough time, that my life is longer and larger than it might have been.” Will the bad boy change his ways?A couple years ago, I wrote about Harry Jowsey, the designated “bad boy” on Netflix’s reality-TV dating show Perfect Match. As I wrote then, “The main dramatic thread… relies on the question of whether Harry, a 27-year-old Australian with the biggest ‘fuckboy’ reputation of them all, is reformed—or could be, for the right woman. A timeless question. One that powers rom-coms and romance novels and many a Bumble date.” Well, he just got his own dating show, Let’s Marry Harry, which seems just about right. “You know, you get the world thrown at you, you get girls you’ve always dreamed of, but I’m ready to settle down,” Jowsey says in the show’s trailer. “If it were up to me, I’d probably mess this up. That’s why my friends are here to guide me in the right direction.”... Subscribe to TCF Emails to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of TCF Emails to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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