Published in 2024
303 pages
5 hours and 49 minutes
Beth Ashley is an investigative journalist who specializes in sex, relationships and social class. Her work ranges from light-hearted features on Gen Z dating culture to deep investigations into inequality, and has appeared in The Guardian, Refinery29, Vice, i-D, Dazed, Glamour, The Face, The Independent, Cosmopolitan, Stylist, Women’s Health, Mashable, The Metro and more. Beth has also consulted on Bumble’s podcast My Love Is…. She writes a lot about her working-class background, with articles such as Does Class Impact the Way We Have Sex? And Not Worrying About Being Working Class Until I Went to Art School (which went viral on social media). Over the last few years, she has cultivated a loyal (and growing) readership and community of social media followers (22,000 combined).
What is this book about?
From award-winning journalist Beth Ashley comes a groundbreaking investigation into the history of slutshaming, how it continues to affect us today and what we can do to fight it.
What is a slut? Where did the word come from? And what do the Jonas Brothers, TikTok and Shakespeare have to do with it? Beth Ashley has the answers in this eye-opening account of slutshaming through the ages and how it’s changed over time but still affects us in the 21st century.
Packed with informed research and statistics, real-life interviews and practical tips, Sluts gives us the tools to identify and deal with slutshaming, rethink the ideas that encourage us to shame those who are sexually expressive and empower us to have open conversations about sex.
