sex-positive

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Adjective

sex-positive (comparative more sex-positive, superlative most sex-positive)

1. Viewing sexual activity as fundamentally good and healthy.

   Synonym: pro-sex

   Antonym: sex-negative

   • 2019 January 10, Laura Collins-Hughes, “It’s a Sex-Positive Party, Not a Play”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Ms. Oh, who studied theater at Smith College, then learned songwriting at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at New York University, is so cheerfully sex-positive that her default email signoff is “Hot Regards.”

   • 2021 September 24, Michelle Goldberg, “Why Sex-Positive Feminism Is Falling Out of Fashion”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Sex-positive feminism understood the demand for celibacy or political lesbianism as a dead end, and saw sexual fulfillment as part of political liberation.

   • 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Sex-positive feminism, which was all about unapologetically celebrating female sexuality, has been on the way out for a few years now, and this feels like its final death knell.

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