sex-positive

[seks pahz-i-tiv]

adjective

1. having a tolerant, accepting, or progressive view of human sexuality; supportive or open about consensual sexual activity.

Other Word Forms

• sex-positivity noun

Example Sentences

I’ve always been comfortable with my body and I consider myself “sex-positive,” as they say.

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It wasn’t until her fifth studio album, “Emails I Can’t Send,” released through Island Records, that Carpenter shed her child star persona and began to lean into a more mature, sex-positive one instead.

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Female characters are not just age-positive, but subtly sex-positive too - Ryan is an older woman exploring her own sexuality, in a way which is messy and sometimes embarrassing.

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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.

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And in the 1990s, she became a godmother to the mediagenic sex-positive feminists riding feminism’s third wave.

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