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Beyond 'sex-positive' and 'sex-negative'
Beata Absalon Beata Absalon

Beyond 'sex-positive' and 'sex-negative'

How do you feel about "sex positivity"? Just the word now!
When I heard the term for the first time, I couldn't get it together that such a sensual and dazzling space was labeled with such a cool and mathematical expression, the sound of which reminded me of the formulation of unpleasant medical diagnoses. Or I had to think of the pejorative accusations of positivism that I know from scientific contexts, when the blind spots are pointed out that go hand in hand with limiting the development of a topic to the one-dimensional accumulation and accumulation of facts, when there is also a surplus of knowledge that is non-positivizable, that cannot be clearly answered with "yes" or "no". In these initial associations with 'positivity', the term is not initially judgmental, but merely denotes a factual "something is there" "something is above zero". Of course, 'sex positivity' doesn't just want to emphasize that there is simply sex...

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