Be heard on the issues that matter most to you!
The founding members of Sex in the Public Square:
Elizabeth Wood, is a sociologist, activist and writer. Elizabeth started blogging and continues to blog at http://sexinthepublicsquare.wordpress.com. She is assistant professor of sociology at Nassau Community College on Long Island in New York. She is a strong believer in the importance of maintaining and expanding public resources, in the importance of sex in human lives and communities, and in the power of organized individuals to make change in the world.
Chris Hall is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. He spent the Reagan years living in Southern California and the dot-com boom years living in San Francisco. He is both geeky and perverted and loves women who know CSS or can count out loud in binary. He maintains a blog, Literate Perversions.
Tom Joaquin is an attorney, activist, and writer, living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. His practice includes working to protect free speech and to extend equal rights for those in the GLBT community. A contrarian by nature, he believes that a society is just to the extent it protects the rights of those without access to political strength. He is a policy geek, interested in health care policy, prison reform/abolition, law and economics, and the intractable problems inherent in a two-party political system. Prior to becoming an attorney, Tom was an officer in the US Navy submarine force. He is a member of Veterans for Peace. Tom writes opinion and satire at http://thefreelance.wordpress.com.
Oh, and we're all interested in sex and community building and activism.
Our members are a very diverse group, and we encourage you to become a member if you haven't done that already. members can learn more about each other by clicking on the hyperlinked names that mark each contribution. Those links take you to profile pages. (Not all members fill these out.)
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
just wanted to thank elizabeth for helping me sort my posts!! i lived on long island in the 80's, happauge and east northport...ex was from queens!
you all are providing a comfy place for people to participate in discussions about sexuality in ALL its manifestations. i know it will grow and i'm proud to be here in the groundbreaking stages!
sex is one of our most basic human needs/expressions......and most misunderstood.
here's....cheers to the hope that we can change that.
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(counting out loud in binary)
Blog: Literate Perversions
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then finally y
I'm so glad you like what we're doing here, BarkingStar, and that you share so many of our goals. I hope you'll jump right in and find ways to make the Square an even more wonderful place :)
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
I found out about this wonderful forum a week ago when I met Elizabeth at the Left Forum. I'm WilliamC and I want to be a regular participant in this project. I'm 61 years old (an old fart!) and have been involved in the struggle for sexual liberation all of my life. In the 60's and 70's I was involved in the "alternative lifestyle" movement which eventually became the polyamory and swing movements. I identified as poly for many years, but found it very difficult to connect with women in that context. I think that the poly movement at that time was very much the victim of patriarchal structures. I haven't been to a poly oriented event in many years. I still struggle because I like sex and I want to connect deeply and honestly with women. I've come to believe that it would be best for me to stop using pornography for now. I really don't like commercial porn anyway. It feels very exploitive to me. At least it triggers fantasies that I don't really want to act out in the real world. This is a decision just for me and just for right now. I want to keep evolvoing and to be involved in a movement that links sexuality and politics. One of my objections to the early poly movement was its anti political nature. People were interested in whatever they were doing but not interested in connecting it to a larger political struggle. I believe very strongly that the personal is very political. I hope to meet more of you over time.
