A Feminist Pleasure Revolution: Ana Requena Aguilar breaks taboos around desire, sex, and motherhood to build a political proposal where pleasure is a right and the cornerstone of the feminism to come. Interwoven with anecdotes from her personal history, the author offers us an essay as necessary as it is engaging.
What if feminism was also about joy? Ana Requena Aguilar puts forward a political and emotional proposal that places pleasure, desire, and sexuality at the heart of the feminist debate. With a candid, lucid, and courageous voice, the author explores crucial topics such as sexual violence, consent, the orgasm gap, female masturbation, emotional labor, and the social punishment of women’s desire. Throughout the book, drawing from everyday experiences, Requena advocates for a reconstruction of feminist discourse—one that, in her view, has focused too heavily on sexual violence—and instead redirects it toward desire, pleasure, and bodily autonomy.
From the La Manada case in Pamplona to revenge porn, ghosting, emotional bonds, and taboos surrounding the female body, Requena denounces how patriarchy has shaped women’s sexuality: always in service of others, stripped of autonomy, and laden with guilt. In contrast, she proposes reclaiming personal desire, speaking openly about sex, dismantling mandates like compulsory heterosexuality or intercourse as the focal point, and making room for more honest, equal, and pleasurable connections.
The book also shatters one of the system’s biggest traps: the idea that motherhood and desire are incompatible. Requena states unequivocally that mothers also have sex, masturbate, fantasize, and desire. She claims space for desiring bodies, shared pleasures, and caring relationships—without giving up laughter and enjoyment.
Vibrant Feminism is not just another manifesto: it is an invitation to live and desire while fighting. A call to build a feminism that is livable, celebratory, and transformative—one that not only denounces violence but also celebrates life and leads the pleasure revolution.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Ana Requena is a renowned journalist focused on economic and social issues: labor rights, caregiving, labor markets, feminism, work-life balance, and gender-based violence. In 2014, she launched the blog Micromachismos, which earned her several awards. She is the author of multiple essays on women, feminism, and gender equality.
Vibrant Feminism is a brave and essential essay that shines a light on a forgotten dimension of the feminist struggle: pleasure. It stands out for its ability to link the political and the personal, dismantling stigmas and showing how sexuality has been a tool of control—but can also be a space of resistance, joy, and self-affirmation. The book is filled with anecdotes that make it an appealing source for adaptation into a fiction project.
Vibrant Feminism is not just a reflection, but a collective impulse to empower women to live out desire on their own terms—free of guilt and fear.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Feature Film, TV Movie
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish
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