Be heard on the issues that matter most to you!
Sex in the Public Square is in the process of becoming a nonprofit corporation. Our main mission is to make space for discussion of sexuality and sex-related issues, and to keep that space open to a wide range of positions. The founders of the corporation don't even agree on everything, of course. That said, there are a few principles that the organization supports:
1. Consensual sex between consenting adults should not be criminalized. This includes commercial sex.
2. Sex is a normal part of human life and accurate information about sex should be accessible to all people regardless of age.
3. Children are sexual beings and their sexuality needs to be honored and allowed to develop in safe and healthy ways. Education about sexuality, including safe-sex practices, should be provided to all children.
4. Exploitation is not okay no matter whether it happens in a sexual setting or a nonsexual setting. We should fight exploitation as much as we can.
5. It is important to be able to hold open, public discussions about sexuality.
6. State policies that concern sexuality, contraception, disease prevention, treatment and education about human sexuality and contraception, and other sex-related issues should be based on science and logic and not on emotion or faith.
The views expressed on this web site in blogs and forums and comments are the views of a wide variety of users and not the views of Sex in the Public Square.
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.
(Any time you see someone's name hyperlinked, clicking on that link will take you to the person's profile page. There you'll find even more information about who we are)
