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I've often mistaken for being 'sex positive' or 'pro sex work'. My position is complex and ever changing. I support in particular women's rights to have the sex they want, and to NOT have sex. I don't agree with the promotion of hyper-sexuality or think it's beyond critique. 1/7
We need to acknowledge asexuality, demisexuality, celibacy and reject the heteronormative assumption that PIV sex is the only form of sex, or the superior form of sex. We need to acknowledge that hook up culture does not benefit many women. 2/7
Too often women abstaining from sex, or actively choosing only the sex they want (within a commited relationship or marriage for instance) are mocked and derided. Young women feel constant pressure to have sex they don't want. This is not ok. 3/7
I appreciate I occupy a really complicated space as former dancer, survivor, Christian and SW academic but that's ok. We need all conversations to be trauma-informed and we need to promote radically informed consent. 4/7
When we promote the idea that there's a problem with NOT being sexually active, we erode women's sexual autonomy. We also erode their ability to withdraw consent in other areas. There is much medical violence against women: we are socialised into believing we have to comply 5/7
We own our bodies. We can decline access to our bodies at any time. We can be sexual in one context and not in another. Sex workers experience rape and it isn't 'their job'. Strippers shouldn't be filmed naked with consent. Your spouse shouldn't rape you. 6/7
The policing and regulation of women's bodies and sexuality always places women as the source and cause of violence against us. Always reject that. 7/7
Typo in this too! Argh
