default.blog

default.blog

Revisiting the Anscombe Society

What my piece Stumbling Into Celibacy got wrong (and right).

Katherine Dee's avatar
Katherine Dee
Oct 19, 2021
∙ Paid
5
Share
Elizabeth Anscombe on the First Person and Sensation | Woman is a Rational  Animal

In September 2021, I published a piece in The American Mind about campus celibacy clubs like the Anscombe Society.

I had first mentioned them as something of a footnote in earlier work about how I believe sex positivity is going out of fashion1—trying, and maybe failing, to pre-empt any “gotchas” about whether I was noticing a trend or engineering one in…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to default.blog to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Default Friend
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture