New Year's Sexual Resolution #3: Stand Up for your Own Sexual Rights

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 her moving and incisive essay, "It's Time to Politicize Our Sexual Oppression" the late Barbara Waxman Fiducia suggested that one of the reasons we don't stand up for our own sexual rights is that we may believe it's our fault we aren't having the kind of sex we want to have, or aren't living the kind of sexual life we want to live. Many of us are unaware of our sexual rights, either because they are summarily dismissed by the mainstream, or because we look and act mainstream enough that the ways we are actually different are swept under the rug. Read more...