sex-positive
Americanadjective
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Because for as many people as Byrd tantalized during her legendary cable run through the ’80s and ’90s, there were just as many who were outraged and scandalized by her sex-positive, queer-inclusive values.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
While many in the ace community are sex-positive without necessarily wanting to have sex themselves, sometimes queerness gets reduced to an eroticism that leaves out ace identities, she said.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
“People try to position my work as being sex-positive or political or whatever — and it’s not, it’s just investigative,” she told The Guardian.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
I’ve heard from older, 1960s-era practitioners; new generation hipster witches from Brooklyn; gay men raised in evangelical households who’d been searching for a more inclusive, sex-positive form of spirituality.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2016
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