{"id":10823,"date":"2014-09-07T22:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/2014\/09\/07\/sex-positivity-is-not-radical-politics-its-not\/"},"modified":"2014-09-07T22:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:05:35","slug":"sex-positivity-is-not-radical-politics-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/2014\/09\/07\/sex-positivity-is-not-radical-politics-its-not\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Sex positivity is not radical politics, it\u2019s not going to save sex workers, women or queers from oppression, and the individualism it promotes through discourses of \u201cagency\u201d and \u201cchoice\u201d in sex and work does more to preclude class-based analysis and prop up standard employment relationships than it ever will to actually create conditions for people to make free and unconstrained choices. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, sex positivity addressed a very real gap in feminism in terms of granting women permission to feel pleasure and deconstructing taboos that made it impossible to talk about sex work as work (among other taboos). <\/p>\n<p>No, it is not radical.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Autocannibal (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead.tumblr.com\/\">clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And like, it\u2019s not <em>supposed <\/em>to be politically radical, because it\u2019s not supposed to be a whole political framework. It is limited in its scope to addressing issues of sexuality + sexual expression, which is only a fraction of the whole human experience. It\u2019s not even a complete response to \u201csex negative\u201d\/radical-cultural feminism, which is indeed a whole political framework and includes a condemnation of a range of consensual sexual practices. It\u2019s only that last bit that sex-positive feminism is responding to. And that response is necessary! Hell, it\u2019s radical, but it\u2019s not politically radical, and it\u2019s not the only necessary response.\u00a0 We also need a labor rights framework to counter sex negative feminism; sex work fits in rather lopsided in sex positive analysis, because sexpos analysis is only about the sex part and not the work part.<\/p>\n<p>I have a ton of issues with sex negative analysis. I have no issues with sex positive analysis\u2014 I have issues with the scope in which it\u2019s used, and the fact that it rarely seems to be used appropriately, in tandem with another analytical framework. That\u2019s why I like the term \u201csex ionic,\u201d even though it\u2019s stupid and ridiculous and pretentious as fuck: it captures the truth that you can really only be sex-positive in your analysis <em>sometimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/loriadorable.tumblr.com\/\">loriadorable<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex positivity is not radical politics, it\u2019s not going to save sex workers, women or queers from oppression, and the individualism it promotes through discourses of \u201cagency\u201d and \u201cchoice\u201d in sex and work does more to preclude class-based analysis and prop up standard employment relationships than it ever will to actually create conditions for people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikesexual.org\/velovagina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}