"Women were told that exploiting their beauty is dishonest."
Catherine Hakim is a social scientist best known for developing preference theory and her work on erotic capital and the sex-deficit theory, with a focus on women’s employment and gender issues. She is currently a Professorial Research Fellow at the London think tank Civitas and is writing a book called Sexual Politics.
She has held senior research roles at the London School of Economics, the Centre for Policy Research in London, and the WZB social science institute in Berlin, as well as working in British central government. Dr Hakim has published over 100 papers and numerous books, and regularly appears on Sky News, BBC Daily Politics, and Woman’s Hour.
“Her scorn for the way the sexual revolution has undermined women’s sexual power by devaluing it, and how ideals of free love have been more sexually enslaving to women — not less — is clearly and convincingly argued" — Sarah Vine, The Times
