Resources

Resources

Sex-Positive Resources and Role Models

Sex positive: a simple yet radical affirmation that we each grow our own passions on a different medium, that instead of having two or three or even half a dozen sexual orientations, we should be thinking in terms of millions. “Sex-positive” respects each of our unique sexual profiles, even as we acknowledge that some of us have been damaged by a culture that tries to eradicate sexual difference and possibility- Carol Queen, Real Live Nude Girl

Sex negativity is the dominant view of sex in Western culture. According to these advocates, traditional Christian views of human sexuality define traditional Western values in relation to this subject. Thus, such proponents of sex-positivity claim that under the Western, Christian tradition, sex is seen as a destructive force except when it is redeemed by the saving grace of procreation, and sexual pleasure is seen as sinful. Sexual acts are ranked hierarchically, with marital heterosexuality at the top of the hierarchy and masturbation, homosexuality, and other sexualities that deviate from societal norms closer to the bottom. Medicine and psychiatry are said to have also contributed to sex-negativity, as they may, from time to time, designate some forms of sexuality that appear on the bottom of this hierarchy as being pathological.- Gayle Rubin, Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality

Print & Online Resources

American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists http://www.aasect.com

Pat Califia, author of Speaking Sex to Power and Public Sex

Betty Dodson, www.bettydodson.com, author of Sex for One

Dorrie Easton, www.dorrieeaston.com, author of When Someone You Love is Kinky and The Ethical Slut

Staci Haines, author of Survivor’s Guide to Sex

Loraine Hutchins, www.lorainehutchins.com

Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, http://www.iashs.edu/

Kinsey Institute, http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/

Marty Klein, www.SexualIntelligence.org, www.sexed.org

Jack Morin, author of The Erotic Mind and Anal Pleasure and Health

Carol Queen, www.sexandculture.org, author of Exhibitionism for the Shy

Pepper Schwartz, http://faculty.washington.edu/couples/

www.scarleteen.com Accessible sex information for adolescents

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, www.siecus.com

Society for Human Sexuality, www.sexuality.org

Reay Tannahill, author of Sex in History

The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation http://www.twshf.org/

Sexual Pioneers

Joani Blank, www.joaniblank.com

Susie Bright, www. susiebright.blogs.com

Annie Sprinkle, www.anniesprinkle.org

David Steinberg, Erotic Photography http://www.nearbycafe.com/loveandlust/steinberg/erotic/ebn/index.html

FTM International www.ftmi.org

International Foundation for Gender Education www.ifge.org

Kink-Aware Professionals and National Coalition for Sexual Freedom https://www.ncsfreedom.org/

Museum of Sex, New York, www.museumofsex.org

Polyamory resources: http://www.polychromatic.com/pfp/main.php

www.SFSI.org, San Francisco Sex Information Hotline

Society for Human Sexuality www.sexuality.org

Mail order resources

Toys in Babeland, www.toysinbabeland.com

Good Vibrations, www.goodvibes.com

Blowfish, www.blowfish.com

Regional resources

www.Lovetribe.org

www.Darklady.com

Seattle Erotic Arts Festival www.seattleerotic.org

Seattle Sex Positive Community Center www.wetspot.org

SheBop, Portland retail store and online products

Sex-Positive Popular Films and Influential Directors

Calendar Girls

The Full Monty

Kinsey

John Cameron Mitchell, director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus

Pleasantville

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

John Waters, director of Pecker and A Dirty Shame