It’s still a ways off, but this is a just a heads up that on June 23, I’ll be hosting the fifth Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy. The fourth installment is currently up at Dacia’s; check it out.
Please feel free to submit blog posts (your own or someone else’s) for potential inclusion to amberlr [at] gmail [dot] com. If you use del.icio.us, you can also mark links for me that way; my username is amberlrhea.
Description of the carnival:
This theory of feminism is known more commonly as Sex Positive Feminism, a movement that developed in the 1980s in response to feminists against pornography and prostitution. Sex Positive Feminists (or sex-radical, pro-sex or sexually liberated feminists) believe that women’s sexual freedom is an essential part of women’s autonomy. Any legal or social control or regulation over the sexual self is an attempt to control and regulate women, undermines their freedom and infringes upon their human rights. We are interested in promoting sex workers’ rights, sex education in schools, and we encourage the free expression of sexualities.
Sex Positive Feminists recognise that not all women choose to work within the sex industry and some are grossly exploited, so it is crucial to understand that sex work must be done consensually. Otherwise, it represents another form of control. We understand too that the opposite of sex positive is not sex negative. For more information about Sex Positive Feminism, click here.
In the next week or so I’ll be trying to think of some specific themes I’d like to cover in the next installment, but please send anything you think would be appropriate.
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I’ll wait for your themes because I’m having a hard time coming up with a topic.
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