New Year's Sexual Resolution #2: Support Someone Else's 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.

Standing up for our own sexual rights would be much easier if we felt like we weren't the only ones struggling. So in addition to the important act of fighting for your own rights this new year, consider supporting the rights of others to be sexual on their own terms. I find it's best to do this when the person you're supporting isn't even around. You avoid the moral quandary of whether you're only doing it for gratitude, plus you'll aggravate bigots who can't figure out why you care so much, when you aren't even (gay/lesbian/polyamorous/or fill in any number of other things people like to put down). Read more...