Meaning of sex-positive | Babel Free

Definitions

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).

Examples

“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.”

“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.””

“Sex-positive feminism understood the demand for celibacy or political lesbianism as a dead end, and saw sexual fulfillment as part of political liberation.”

“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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