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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