A Sex-Positive Manifesto

On the premises that:

  1. Sex (in some form, even if it is limited to masturbation or exposure to sexual imagery in daily life) is a universal experience.
  2. Sex is commonly a positive experience.
  3. A lack of educated and thoughtful discussion of sex leads to negative sexual experiences such as unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, sexual assault, and unintentional injury.
  4. The prevailing global attitude toward sex is based in ways of thinking that take an invisible, intangible, omnipotent, morally-challenged, and unprovable being and medieval social mores as their basis, rather than the physical and emotional wellbeing of contemporary human individuals.
  5. Studies have suggested that as many as one in every ten human beings is gay.
  6. My life experience suggests that a rather higher percentage of human beings are not totally “straight”.
  7. My Classical education strongly suggests that the very concept of “homosexuality” as a defined sexual identity is recent, culturally based, and fundamentally flawed.

I hereby repudiate the concept that speaking of sex in a public setting is in any way indecent and declare my intention to openly post links and articles that speak positively of sex and sexual orientations and identities other than “straight” and cisgender.

In other words: Talking about sex isn’t inappropriate—not talking about sex is inappropriate. And if you don’t like it, get the hell off my blog.

  1. jwisser posted this