Being way behind on LJ: Sex and Summary
May. 6th, 2008 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaI'm slowly wading my way back to the present, again. Many things conspired to set me so far back--Artie's death after surgery took a lot out of me, work has again been utterly craptacular, and I lost all of this weekend just past to a double-sized NYRSF work weekend. I had a much more pleasant weekend on April 26-27, interrupted only by the misfortune of having to rush ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redbird to the hospital.
Anyway, one of the good things about being way way behind is that I don't feel any need to get up to my elbows in the Open Source Thing That Ate Livejournal. Almost every idea I might have contributed was already wrapped up in a superb piece on the subject, an essay bysynecdochic, a writer previously unknown to me: "sex-positive". what a loaded term. (I think I found this through a link to a slightly later essay of hers, Don't Be That Guy., which was widely linked; but I found the "sex-positive" essay much more interesting.
The key sentence in "sex-positive" is a parenthetical (oh, the daring!):
I might quibble with her terminology; I think "sex-positive" and "sex-for-ME-positive" gets at her point even better. But damn. that's the entire dilemma of frank sexual positivity right there. "We must all be free spirits loving like the angels . . . so make with the dry humping alreadys."
redbird to the hospital. Anyway, one of the good things about being way way behind is that I don't feel any need to get up to my elbows in the Open Source Thing That Ate Livejournal. Almost every idea I might have contributed was already wrapped up in a superb piece on the subject, an essay by
synecdochic, a writer previously unknown to me: "sex-positive". what a loaded term. (I think I found this through a link to a slightly later essay of hers, Don't Be That Guy., which was widely linked; but I found the "sex-positive" essay much more interesting. The key sentence in "sex-positive" is a parenthetical (oh, the daring!):
(For ease of reference, let's call the two groups "sex-positive" and "getting-laid-positive".)
I might quibble with her terminology; I think "sex-positive" and "sex-for-ME-positive" gets at her point even better. But damn. that's the entire dilemma of frank sexual positivity right there. "We must all be free spirits loving like the angels . . . so make with the dry humping alreadys."
