Why be sex-positive?
Can you explain why people assume that it's good to be sex-positive? Why be sex-positive instead of sex-skeptical and/or sex-ambivalent? Isn't sex-positivity a form of primitivism and bio-Luddism? What experimental-psychological evidence do sex-positives have to back their claims, if any? And if sex-positivity is not OK, then why is it that a majority of atheists are sex-positive? Or are they not?
Tags: antisex, antisexual, antisexualism, sex, sex-negative, sex-negativity, sex-positive, sex-positivity, sexual, sexual attitudes, More…
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Permalink Reply by TheMostAthy on -
Can we get a translation team in here, please?
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Permalink Reply by prude on -
sex-positive = that has a positive attitude towards sexuality
sex-negative = that has a negative attitude towards sexuality
sex-ambivalent = that has a mixed (both positive and negative) attitude towards sexuality
antisexual = that is against sex or sexuality, in whole or in part
primitivistic = that glorifies the past and/or old things (e.g., thinks that natural things are always good)
bio-Luddite = someone who is against some or all biotechnologies; in this case that would be assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and potential future technologies that might convert people to asexual, and maybe Androcur
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Permalink Reply by prude on
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sex-skeptical = that demands evidence for claims about sexuality; that is skeptical about both sex-positive and sex-negative claims
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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on -
Does that mean I'm positive that sex exists, or that I view sex in a positive light, or that sex has a positive charge, or ...
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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on
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Sex is how we keep the species from going extinct, personally I think that's a positive thing!
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Permalink Reply by prude on
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If assisted reproductive technologies (ART) were cheaper than conception via sex, would you still think sex is positive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_reproductive_technology
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on -
But conception doesn't cost anything, unless a couple has a hard time conceiving and ends up resorting to some procedure like in vitro.
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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on -
I'm curious as to which ARTs are even close to being cheaper than conception via sex?
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