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
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/
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
Toys in Babeland, www.toysinbabeland.com
Good Vibrations, www.goodvibes.com
Blowfish, www.blowfish.com
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
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
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