MixedThe Times UKThe book isn’t nearly as silly as the title suggests. Ghodsee’s real argument in Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism is that capitalism is bad for women. It is bad for women for the simple reason that it dumps us with the childcare, pays us less and so makes us financially unequal and dependent on men ... Is modern capitalism perfect? Of course it isn’t — which is why it never stops evolving. It has survived because it works better than all other systems. Sex may be better under socialism (who really knows?), but so far history tells us clearly that nothing else is. As Ghodsee notes, one reason that East Germans were thought to have better sex lives than West Germans was not just because everyone had an equality of economic security (or in most cases economic misery), but because the \'East German regime encouraged people to enjoy their sex lives as a way of distracting them from the monotony and relative deprivation of the socialist economy\'.
