The sex-positive movement is an ideology which promotes and embraces open sexuality with few limits beyond an emphasis on safe sex and the importance of informed consent.

The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that advocates these attitudes.

The sex-positive movement does not in general make moral or ethical distinctions between heterosexual or homosexual sex, or masturbation, regarding these choices as matters of personal preference.

Most elements of the sex-positive movement advocate comprehensive and accurate sex education as part of its campaign.

Some became involved in the sex-positive feminist movement in response to efforts by anti-pornography feminists, such as Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Robin Morgan and Dorchen Leidholdt, to put pornography at the center of a feminist explanation of women's oppression ( McElroy, 1995 ).

Authors who have advocated sex-positive feminism include Ellen Willis, Susie Bright, Patrick Califia, Gayle Rubin, Carol Queen, Avedon Carol, Tristan Taormino, Diana Cage, Nina Hartley, and Betty Dodson, who could be regarded as the grandmother of the movement.

Some became involved in the sex-positive feminist movement in response to efforts by anti-pornography feminists, such as Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Robin Morgan and Dorchen Leidholdt, to put pornography at the center of a feminist explanation of women's oppression ( McElroy, 1995 ).

Sex-positive feminism is connected with the sex-positive movement.

The sex-positive movement response to this argument was that legislation against pornography violates women's right to free speech.

Like feminism itself, sex-positive feminism is difficult to define, and few within the movement ( particularly the academic arm of the movement ) agree on any one ideology or policy agenda.

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Authors such as Gayle Rubin ( Rubin, 1984 ) and Wendy McElroy ( McElroy, 1995 ) see the roots of sex-positive feminism in the work of sex reformers and workers for sex education and access to contraception such as Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, Mary Dennett and later, Alfred Kinsey and Shere Hite.

While the party does not maintain a full slate of policy positions, both its federal and provincial election platforms have three goals: reform of how sex education is taught, " repeal sex-negative laws and regulations, and support sex-positive community ".

Many other sex-positive feminists have embraced Ensler's work for its encouragement of openness about women's bodies and sexuality.

Both the self-proclaimed sex-positive and the so-called sex-negative forms of present-day feminism can trace their roots to early radical feminism.

Other feminists, particularly those identified with sex-positive feminism, take a different view of sexual objectification and see it as a problem when it is not counterbalanced by women's sense of their own sexual subjectivity.

Among feminists, she identifies herself as being sex-positive: defending the availability of pornography and condemning anti-pornography feminism campaigns.

On the other hand, there are stores that evolved specifically out of a sex-positive culture, such as San Francisco's Good Vibrations, Xandria, Seattle's Toys In Babeland, Jillians Fantasy or My Spicy Treasures of Denton, TX.

The terms and concept of sex-positive ( or, alternately sex-affirmative ) and sex-negative are generally attributed to Wilhelm Reich.

Some sex-positive positions include acceptance of BDSM and polyamory as well as asexuality, transsexuality, transgenderism, and other forms of gender transgression in general.

Some sex-positive theorists have analyzed sex-positivity in terms of intersection of race / culture, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and spirituality.

Other sex-positive feminists became involved not in opposition to other feminists but in direct response to what they saw as patriarchal control of sexuality.

Modern descendants of free love could be seen to include the contemporary sex-positive, polyamory, and queer movements and figures such as Susie Bright, Patrick Califia, and Annie Sprinkle.

Squirm seeks to create a sex-positive forum on campus for the artistic, literary, and creative exploration of sex.

Her characterization of pornography as a tool of objectification puts Nussbaum at odds with sex-positive feminism.

She is one of the first writers / activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist.

In most Westernized, sex-positive societies, there is the additional social pressure for people in 20s or 30s age ranges to have experienced sexual interaction in some form.

Other less academic sex-positive feminists became involved not in opposition to other feminists but in direct response to what they saw as patriarchal control of sexuality.

Authors who have advocated sex-positive feminism include Ellen Willis, Kathy Acker, Susie Bright, Patrick Califia, Gayle Rubin, Carol Queen, Shar Rednour, Annie Sprinkle, Avedon Carol, Tristan Taormino, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Nina Hartley and Betty Dodson.

As such, sex-positive feminists oppose legal or social efforts to control sexual activities between consenting adults, whether these efforts are initiated by the government, other feminists, opponents of feminism, or any other institution.

Sex-radical feminists in particular come to a sex-positive stance from a deep distrust in the patriarchy's ability to secure women's best interest in sexually limiting laws.

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