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In reply to the discussion: With all the anti-pornography talk, can we have a sex positive thread? [View all]Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)You have an entire thread in HOF where someone is basically saying, there they go in GD again calling us prudes because we don't like rape. The logical disconnect is reaching biblical proportions. I believe you are absolutely correct. Nobody is attacking the personal sexuality of anyone, or at least I haven't seen it.
The whole sex-positive concept originated by feminists, for feminists. It doesn't come from the right. While it is true that some have hijacked that terminology for nefarious purposes, I don't believe the concept as it originated was ever about prudishness. Certain feminists believe that the vast majority of heterosexual coitus is coercive due to the patriarchy. This is a fact that I hope nobody disputes and if they do it would probably serve them well to educate themselves on the subject because it's important to informed discussion on this topic as opposed to banal shit throwing. Some(if not all) of the feminists who were instrumental in the early feminist movement for anti-pornography held this belief (and still do for the most part). The literal meaning of heterosexual coitus is in fact, sex. Some of the 2nd wave feminists were dissatisfied with the anti-male bias and anti-pornography efforts of the 2nd wave which they saw as denying women self-agency and took to calling themselves pro-sex or sex positive, to differentiate themselves from much of the rest of the 2nd wave which they saw as having an increasingly restrictive view of sexuality. Now, not everyone may agree with this concept, but that's where it came from like it or not. If anyone doubts any of this, they can learn about Betty Dodson who started the whole movement. Google is your friend here. She's a great feminist and an even better sex educator.