New Year's Sexual Resolution #5: Speak Your Sexual Mind

If you're already making a mental list of New Year's resolutions about your health, your finances, and how you're going to deal with family stress differently next holiday season, why not put sexuality on the list. Often overlooked and undervalued as a "luxury", our sexuality isn't just something that happens 1.4 times a week under the covers, its part of who we are. Make some New Year's sexual resolutions, and set a different sexual tone for 2006.

In his passionate book, The Politics of Lust author and sex activist John Ince describes our culture as one that is "sexphobic". In his estimation, we are raised not only to be embarrassed or ashamed of our sexuality, but to actually fear sex itself. He makes a convincing argument (much better than my little description suggests) and the evidnce can be seen in the ways that many of us avoid speaking our sexual minds. Read more...