sex-positive

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sex-positive (comparative more sex-positive, superlative most sex-positive)

  1. Viewing sexual activity as fundamentally beneficial and healthy; (in particular) supportive of personal autonomy and rights in relation to sex (including consensual kinky sex, queer sex, or sex work).
    Synonym: pro-sex
    Antonym: sex-negative
    • 1989 February 12, “Safer Sex and Drug Use Guidelines”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 12:
      GCN's guidelines come from a wide variety of sources aimed at various communities concerned about the AIDS epidemic and health in general. We want to confront the prevailing "no sex is best" attitude and present an approach that is as sex-positive as possible.
    • 2019 January 10, Laura Collins-Hughes, “It’s a Sex-Positive Party, Not a Play”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Ms. Oh, who studied theater at Smith College, then learned songwriting at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at New York University, is so cheerfully sex-positive that her default email signoff is “Hot Regards.”
    • 2021 September 24, Michelle Goldberg, “Why Sex-Positive Feminism Is Falling Out of Fashion”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
      Sex-positive feminism understood the demand for celibacy or political lesbianism as a dead end, and saw sexual fulfillment as part of political liberation.
    • 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian‎[3], →ISSN:
      Sex-positive feminism, which was all about unapologetically celebrating female sexuality, has been on the way out for a few years now, and this feels like its final death knell.

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