sex-positive

American  

[seks pahz-i-tiv] / ˈsɛks ˈpɑz ɪ tɪv /

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• sex-positivity noun

Example Sentences

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