Charlie Glickman is a San Francisco-based sex educator. After working at Good Vibrations, a local sex shop, Glickman went on to do his doctoral work in the area of adult sexual education. He was interviewed in
Capital xtra!When we're talking about sex negativity, what we're talking about is the idea that sex is dangerous and that it needs to be controlled or contained. Or that it needs something to validate it. In the old days, 100 years ago, the only thing that validated it was heterosexual marriage for the purpose of procreation.
We have started seeing shifts. Now we're in this place where, for some people, love validates sex, or a relationship validates sex, but there's still this idea that we need something to validate it because we still have this fear about it.
But sex positivity doesn't mean that there's no control, or there's no boundaries. Sex negativity is about utterly rigid boundaries, so the mistake that people make is thinking that there are no boundaries. In fact, the people who I know who try to live in a sex positive way have some of the most firm boundaries I know.
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Charlie Glickman is a San Francisco-based sex educator. After working at Good Vibrations, a local sex shop, Glickman went on to do his doctoral work in the area of adult sexual education. He was interviewed in Capital xtra!
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