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  1. Affairs: The Secret Lives of Women
    Resource Type: Book
  2. Alternate Sources
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
    A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edge is a pan-sexual book structured to answer the questions a novice might have as he or she begins to explore safer SM play, and those of experienced players as they try new ways to play. It provides an understanding of how SM play can be a positive, safe, and healthy expression of sexual fantasies.
  3. AlterNet
    Resource Type: Website
    Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
  4. Answering Camille Paglia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    What is important about Paglia is that she expresses more forcefully than most academics, if not more eloquently, this year's most popular half-truths. By marshaling the prejudices of many elements of the working class she channels them into a direct line that leads to support for the bourgeoisie.
  5. Anti-Porn is the Theory, Repression is the Practice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987   Published: 1989
    The campaign against pornography has been one of the most visible faces of feminism for more than a decade now. Few have wanted to know whether the 'clean up' they were promoting strengthened women's hand or the State's. Thus they have attracted supporters and allies among politicians from the New Right, which governs (among others) the US and the UK, from the old moralizing Left, and even from the trendy Left. Although this anti-porn lobby is not homogeneous, it is rare for any part of it to dissociate itself from the most powerful pro-censorship law-and-order identity.
  6. Arab Sexualities
    Against The Current vol. 137

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The issue of same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and other rightists who were hostile for decades to the lesbian/gay movement have repackaged themselves as defenders of oppressed Arab women and gays. Responses from the left have been divided.
  7. Are We Having Sex Now or What?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Questions you may never have thought to ask about sex.
  8. Beyond Gay Identity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Gay emancipation will destroy gay identity. This is a good thing, because gay identity sustains gay conformism.
  9. Bi Any Other Name 
    Bisexual People Speak Out

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    A collection of essays by 75 authors on bisexual identity.
  10. BiNet USA
    Resource Type: Website
    BiNet USA collects and distributes information regarding Bisexuality; facilitates the development of Bisexual community and visibility; works for the equal rights and liberation of Bisexuals and all oppressed peoples; and to eradicate all forms of oppression inside and outside the Bisexual community.
  11. The Bisexual Identity
    Changing Perspectives on Sexuality: Contributions of Kinsey and Anthropologists

    Resource Type: Article
    Cross-cultural comparisons highlight not only the differences in how sexuality is perceived, but the power of such constructs on sexual behavior.
  12. Bisexual Resource Center
    Resource Type: Website
    Information, discussions, and resources for bi-sexuals.
  13. Bisexual.org
    Resource Type: Website
    Information about bi-sexuality and links to bi-sexual sites.
  14. The Black Rose
    Resource Type: Website
    Black Rose is "a non-profit organization which provides a forum for the many different expressions of power in love and play. This can include dominance and submission, bondage & discipline, fetishism, cross-dressing, and so on."
  15. The Brain That Changes Itself
    Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
  16. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An examination of the lives of (American) people involved in socially and/or sexually open relationships.
  17. Buddy's
    Meditations on Desire

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  18. Burning Desires
    Sex in America: A report from the field

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Burning Desires looks at the state of sex in the aftermath of the `sexual counter-revolution' that marked the 1980s.
  19. The Catalyst
    Resource Type: Book
  20. Comfort, Alex
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. (1920-2000).
  21. Coming to Power
    Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  22. Communism and the Family (Part Two)
    The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
  23. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  24. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  25. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  26. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  27. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  28. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  29. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  30. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  31. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  32. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  33. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
  34. A critique of anti-assimilation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In this piece, Gayge Operaista critiques how anti-assimilation politics of many radical queer tendencies ignores class struggle, and recasts queer liberation in terms of the class struggle, countering the worst excess of identity politics with an introduction to models of class struggle.
  35. Defending Pornography 
    Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.
  36. Different Loving
    An exploration of the world of sexual dominance and submission

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1996
    Explores and demystifies the worlds of BDSM, sexual power relationships, and fetishism.
  37. Drawing the Line
    Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  38. The End of Gay?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Gay identity is destined for oblivion once homophobia is overturned.
  39. Eros Denied
    Sex in Western Society

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1966
    Spanning 2000 years of Western culture, Eros Denied explores the multitude of forces which through the ages have tended to suppress and pervert the sexual instincts.
  40. The Ethical Slut 
    A guide to infinite sexual possibilities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
  41. The Female Body in Western Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
  42. Feminism and Sadomasochism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1981
    Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
  43. Film as a Subversive Art
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
  44. The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A dramatic account of the tumultuous decade-long struggle in the United Church of Canada to balance faith, sexuality and human rights. Drawing on the church's history, and more than one hundred personal encounters across the country, the book reveals an enormous range of passionate opinion, from fundamentalist to progressive. It documents not only deep tensions that threatened to dis-unite the United Church, but also its remarkable resilience as an enduring network of faith communities.
  45. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  46. The Freudian Left
    Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
  47. Further Dialogue on Pornography
    Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
  48. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
  49. Giving Heads
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Introducing Processed World #18, an issue devoted to the always-popular subject of sex.
  50. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  51. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
  52. Group Sex
    Communal Ethics of Eroticism, Free Love, and the Extended Family

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Is free love a relic of the past? Does principled promiscuity still persist at the dawn of the twenty-first century? Where do anti-authoritarian radicals stand in the cultural combat?
  53. Hidden from History
    Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Eessays analyzing the political, philosophical, and social history of homosexuality from the ancient world to the postwar era.
  54. The Hite Report
    A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    The results of a survey of 3,000 American women regarding their sexuality.
  55. The Hite Report on Male Sexuality
    How men feel about love, sex, and relationships

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Research bases on a study of 7,000 American men.
  56. Hot Wet Holiday Sex
    From Wikileaky Condoms to Yucky Zuckerburg

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Whatever your preferences, do go on some kind of holiday sex adventure. Try not to hurt anyone, including yourself, and whatever your pleasure, enjoy it and infuse it with a sense of *sacred* solstice power, a promise to resist the deadly status quo of depression, perma-war and power-grabs, and a passionate commitment to love.
  57. In Defence of Sex and Science: Review of Kinsey
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    A review of the film "Kinsey".
  58. Intimate Friendships 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Examines various forms of intimate relationship, from monogamy, to monogamy with adultery, to polygyny, polyandry and group relationships.
  59. The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  60. Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A compendium of advice on how to tie up your sweetie, or get tied up yourself.
  61. Kinsey, Alfred
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American biologist and sexologist. (1894-1956).
  62. The Lesbian S/M Safety manual
    Resource Type: Book
  63. Liberating Sexual Desire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Everyone is potentially bisexual; the struggle for lesbian and gay equality is about the right of all people to share the joy of same-sex relationships without guilt or anxiety, and without the fear of prejudice and discrimination.
  64. Libido
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    "The literary answer to the horizontal urge."
  65. Loving More
    New Models for Relationships

    Resource Type: Website
    Organization and resource for people who who wish to move beyond traditional monogamy.
  66. Loving More
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    A newsletter published by PEP (Polyfidelitious Educational Productions), a group marriage journal and network. Previous title was PEPTALK; name was changed to Loving More starting with the Spring 1991 issue (Issue #26), and to Loving More Magazine ins 1994. Some copies of this publication are in the Connexions Archive.
    See also the Loving More website www.lovemore.com.
  67. Lupercalian Valentine's Day
    Whip It Good

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The tradition of honoring all-inclusive, natural LUST around February 14 pre-dates classical times when Ancient Romans celebrated the Lupercalia, an archaic festival of the now obscure old shepherd god Lupercus (or perhaps Faunus, the Roman Pan), and a celebration of communal sexuality, purification, fertility, the rush of hormones, the howl of the wolf, the crack of the whip and the coming of Spring.
  68. Making Gay Redundant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
  69. The Mass Psychology of Fascism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1933   Published: 1970
    Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
  70. A Mind of its Own
    A Cultural Historyt of the Penis

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  71. Nature Heals 
    The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Adolescent sexuality, the nature of aggression, ethics, Freud, the psychology of artists, Reich, homosexuality -- large, important, and controversial issues like these fascinated Paul Goodman, and in these essays he writes about them as if he absolutely had to, as if nothing were more important than the subject at hand.
  72. The New Sexual Radicalism
    Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision - whether implicit or explicit - of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
  73. The New Sexual Radicalism
    Against The Current vol. 146

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    From its beginning in the 1990s in the United States, a “queer” activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism, emphasizing visibility, difference, direct action, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and the fluidity and diversity of sexual desire.
  74. The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
    Resource Type: Book
    An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
  75. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
  76. Our Promiscuous Prehistory
    A Review of Sex at Dawn

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Most otherwise topnotch evolutionary psychologists, primatologists and anthropologists come up with flip, vague or convoluted ways to explain away unpopular evidence. They seem to be trying to squeeze the square peg of monogamy into the round hole of humanity. Ryan and Jethá have chosen a more well-rounded term to characterize the essence of human sexuality as practiced by our prehistoric progenitors: promiscuity.
  77. Pansexuality
    Resource Type: Article
    Pansexuality (also referred to as omnisexuality) is a sexual orientation, characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire towards people, regardless of their gender identity or biological sex. Some pansexuals suggest that they are gender-blind; that gender and sex are insignificant or irrelevant in determining whether they will be sexually attracted to others. For others, an individual's sex, gender expression, or gender identity can be a key factor of attraction, despite the pansexual individual's wide range of sex and gender attractions.
  78. The Party of Eros
    Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    King looks at radical theorists -- Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown -- who have attempted to deal with the intersections of eros and power.
  79. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  80. The Politics of Being Queer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    Goodman writes: "On balance, I don't know whether my choice, or compulsion, of a bisexual life has made me especially unhappy or only averagely unhappy. It is obvious that every way of life has its hang-ups, having a father or no father, being married or single, being strongly sexed or rather sexless, and so forth; but it is hard to judge what other people's experience has been, to make a comparison. I have persistently felt that the world was not made for me, but I have had good moments.
  81. Polyamory
    Resource Type: Website
  82. Polyamory Society
    Resource Type: Website
    Promotes and supports the interest of individuals of multipartner relationships and families.
  83. Porn can be good for you
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    While pornography can be dehumanising and exploitative, it can also be educative, liberating, empowering, fulfilling and immensely socially beneficial. It all depends on how it is made, who makes it, what it depicts and why it is being used.
  84. Pornography and the Sex Censors
    A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
  85. Powers of Desire
    The Politics of Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists.
  86. QSM - Books, Magazines and Comics
    Resource Type: Website
    Books, DVDs, magazines, and comics on SM, dominance & submission, erotic pain, and related fetishes.
  87. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
  88. A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. The brief suspension of program architect Roz Ward from her position at La Trobe University has reopened the debate about whether Safe Schools is 'cultural Marxism' by stealth, the program once again coming under fire from conservatives across the country. Even trans advocate and member of the ADF Catherine McGregor has weighed in. One of the more interesting elements of this, however, has been the debate it has created about the role gender and sexual politics can and should play within Marxism. Here enters Guy Rundle. In the pages of Crikey, Rundle penned a treatise on the program and what he considers the failures of 'queer theory'. Rundle believes Safe Schools (via queer theory) presents the view that 'gender and sexuality are infinitely fluid'. He argues, however, that such a view denies the material realities of sexuality and gender, not to mention his view that 'almost no-one really believes it -- and they certainly do not let it shape their lives'.
  89. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  90. The Railroading of Tonya Craft
    A New Wave of Prosecutorial Hysteria

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    As we have seen countless times before, the media always is ready to run over the cliff with the prosecutors, and no matter how many times the prosecution is discredited, there always is another reporter ready to serve as a PR mouthpiece for a dishonest state official. And it always will be that way, for like the Bourbons, the media learn nothing, and they forget nothing.
  91. The Regulation of Desire
    Homo and Hetero Sexualities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987   Published: 1996
    A survey of the history of sexuality in Canada.
  92. Revelations
    Essays on Striptease and Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
  93. The roots of gay oppression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
  94. Satan, the State and Anti-Sex Hysteria
    Unholy Alliance of Feminists and Christian Right

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    A lengthy review of two books about the anti-sex witchhunts in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
  95. Scarlet Road
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele – people with disability.
  96. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
  97. Secret Sexual Fantasies
    The Erotic Theater of the Mind

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Your fantasies are always with you, playing hide-and-seek with your perceived realities, whispering wild ideas into your inner ear, showing movies in your mind, stirring your passions mysteriously, yet so powerfully. If you are imprisoned in any way–by your work, your family, your education, your religion, your government–your fantasies become your freedom. Sometimes your ability to fantasize is the only freedom you have.
  98. Sensuous Magic
    A Guide for Adventurous Couples

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    A peek behind the mask of dominant/submissive sexuality: an adventurous adult world of pleasure often obscured by ignorance and fear. Califia demystifies the scene for the novice, explaining the terms and techniques behind many misunderstood sexual practices.
  99. Serpents in the Garden
    Liaisons with Culture and Sex

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Essays on sex, music, art, architecture and culture from the editors and writers of CounterPunch.
  100. Sex at Dawn
    The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Ryan and Jethá contend that humans evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors argue that monogamy is by no means part of human nature.
  101. Sex and Ethics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1963
    In America, as it is at present, most behavior -- and this is not only in sexual matters -- has nothing to do with what one is or would normally desire or naturally desire, but what is pected of one or in order to provide something which has got nothing to do with the functioning of it.
  102. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
  103. Sex, Needs, and Queer Culture
    From Liberation to the Post-Gay

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized -- as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events -- while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights. Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this homonormativity, or assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred.
    In Sex, Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and he argues powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the broader project of human liberation.
  104. Sex, Power and Pleasure
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  105. Sex and the Russian Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
  106. Sex Scandals America
    Politics and the Ritual of Public Shaming

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A comprehensive history of sexual scandals in America from colonial times, including Pocahontas and the Puritans, to today which exposes the scandals of national political figures and celebrities and ties these scandals to the deeper changes in sexual culture. It assesses the role of political scandals as a form of public shaming and shows how, scandals have changed, evolving from a morality tale to an entertainment distraction.
  107. Sex-Pol 
    Essays 1929-1934

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1934   Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
  108. SexSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  109. Sexual Anarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Showalter explores the parallels between the ends of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their representation in literature, art, and film.
  110. Sexual Minorities Out South Sexual minorities in the Majority World
    New Internationalist October 2000

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    Why and how sexual minirities are persecuted throughout the South. As well as religion, minorities are a threat to the nuclear family (the most manageable social unit) and a convenient scapegoat. Articles on Africa, India, Muslim countries and the spread of HIV.
  111. Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle
    Love and New Morality

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1972
  112. The Sexual Revolution
    Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930   Published: 1967
    Wilhelm Reich summarizes the criticism of prevailing sexual conditions and conflicts as it resulted from his sex-economic researches. He analyzes the general basic traits of the conflicts in present-day sexual living, dealing particularly with the institution of marriage and the revolution in family life as well as with the problems of infantile and adolescent sexuality. He also presents a study of the sexual revolution that occurred briefly in Soviet Russia in the first few years of their economic revolution.
  113. Sexual revolution
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Encompasses the changes in social thought and codes of behaviour related to sexuality throughout the Western world.
  114. The Sexual Struggle of Youth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1931   Published: 1972
  115. Sexuality and capitalism
    The Italian Renaissance

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Revolutionary struggles against capitalism have raised, time and again, the issue of sexual liberation. Right at the start of capitalism, the English revolution of the 1640s and 1650s involved what historian Christopher Hill has called a “sexual revolution” against the old order.
  116. Sexuality and Socialism
    History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    An accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression — including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory — and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality.
  117. Sexuality and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1970
    A study of sexual issues in the emergence of the extra-parliamentary left in West Germany during the 1960s. Reiche develops a theoretical view of the evolution of sexuality in the West.
  118. The Sexuality of Men
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Essays on aspects of male sexuality.
  119. Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  120. Sexwork.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Sex Work Cyber Resource & Support Center. Promoting Intimacy and Positive, Healthy, Consenting Adult Sexuality.
  121. Social and Sexual Revolution 
    Essays on Marx and Reich

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    A collection of essays by Bertell Ollman. Ollman tackles issues such as Karl Marx's concepts of class, class consciousness, and communism; he argues for the absorption of Wilhelm Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and he dicusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying its central purpose as an instrument of class struggle.
  122. Socialism and the New Life
    The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  123. Socialism, the Family and Sexuality
    Chapter 13 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It

    Resource Type: Article
  124. The Socialized Penis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    On the sexual socialization of men in the United States.
  125. Society for Human Sexuality
    Resource Type: Website
    Social and educational organization whose purpose is to promote understanding and appreciation for the many forms of adult intimate relationships and consensual sexual expression.
  126. Through the Glass Clearly: Canadian Women's Education, Work and Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  127. Thy Neighbor's Wife
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
  128. Toward A Queer Marxism?
    Against The Current vol. 151

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Scholarly approaches to sexuality since the 1980s have become increasingly divorced from practical sexual politics, and both have largely given up on earlier attempts to engage with Marxism. Now this may be changing. A stimulating new book by Kevin Floyd maintains that people in queer studies are paying more attention to Marxism’s “explanatory power.” From the activist side, Sherry Wolf of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) has made an impressive effort to sum up LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) theory and practice from a Marxist perspective.
  129. Towards a Method for the Revolutionary Reconstruction of Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    On the critique and transformation of everyday life as a key part of the struggle for revolutionary transformation. Published in Liberation magazine April 1972.
  130. The Unfashionable Human Body 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A discussion of apparel, in the broadest sense of the word, and how it has reflected and shaped attitudes to the human body.
  131. The Unknown Dimension 
    European Marxism Since Lenin

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
  132. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
  133. Whatever Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    What would a future anthropologist make of the bizarre and seemingly contradictory assortment of information on sexuality available today?
  134. What's in a name? In a racist society, everything
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In our society refusal to contemplate a relationship with a person from another ethnic or religious background is described and denounced as racism or bigotry. In Israel it is protected by law.
  135. What's the Sexual Health of the Nation?
    Sex, Lies and the Great Recession

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    What happens to pleasure during a period of social crisis? Sex may be the best way to determine the true pulse of the nation.
  136. A Window on Indigenous Life
    Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life (Book Review)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Book Review of Andrew Canessa's Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life.
  137. Yes Means No? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
  138. Your Knife in my Life
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    A tale of toil.

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