Sex-positive

In sexology, some people use the term sex-positive to describe an attitude towards human sexual behavior that regards sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, and encourages sexual pleasure and experimentation.

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Sexology - Human sexual behavior

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The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that advocates these attitudes. The sex-positive movement advocates sex education and safer sex as part of its campaign.

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Sex education - Safer sex

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It does not make moral distinctions between heterosexual or homosexual sex, or indeed masturbation for people who are otherwise celibate, regarding these choices as matters of personal preference.

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Heterosexual - Homosexual - Masturbation - Celibate

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The sex-positive movement is closely aligned to the ideas of sex-positive feminism.

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One definition of sex-positivity, from (Queen, 1997):

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Sex-positive, a term that's coming into cultural awareness, isn't a dippy love-child celebration of orgone – it's a simple yet radical affirmation that we each grow our own passions on a different medium, that instead of having two or three or even half a dozen sexual orientations, we should be thinking in terms of millions. "Sex-positive" respects each of our unique sexual profiles, even as we acknowledge that some of us have been damaged by a culture that tries to eradicate sexual difference and possibility.

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Advocates of sex-positivity define their philosophy in contrast to sex-negativity, which they identify as the dominant view of sex in Western culture. Under Western, Christian tradition, sex is seen as a destructive force except when it is redeemed by the saving grace of procreation, and sexual pleasure is seen as sinful. Sexual acts are ranked hierarchically, with marital heterosexuality at the top of the hierarchy and masturbation, homosexuality, transsexuality, and other sexualities that deviate from societal norms closer to the bottom. Medicine and psychiatry have also contributed to sex-negativity insofar as they designate the forms of sexuality that appear on the bottom of this hierarchy as being pathological. (Rubin, 1984)

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Masturbation - Transsexuality

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