I’d like to take a stand in favor of sex negativity. Why?
1) For all the wonderful things that the “sex-positive” label makes possible, it also presents some weaknesses, stumbling blocks, pitfalls, and misunderstandings. These go hand in hand with an uncritical understanding of sex-positivity, when a overly one-sided diagnosis of the problem is made: that sex is primarily suppressed and treated as a taboo.
2) I’d like to propose a very specific understanding of sex-negativity that cannot be confused with either a religiously conservative or politically right-wing hostility toward sex.
3) More broadly, I would like to move away from binary divisions and make it clear that sex negativity and sex positivity do not have to be two opposing forces, but rather could be seen as two progressive strategies—coming from opposite directions—that pull in the same direction, thereby jointly creating a huge…