Connexions Resource Centre
Focus on Sexuality
Recent & Selected Articles
This is a small sampling of articles related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as
Subject Index, especially under topics such as
sexuality,
sexual behaviour,
and sexual freedom.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home (November 18, 2009)
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- No, Not All Bi Women Love Threesomes (October 1, 2009)
Being bisexual means that you are attracted to members of both sexes, even if you’re not sleeping with them. Here are some things bisexuality doesn’t mean.
- In Defence of Sex and Science: Review of Kinsey (2005)
A review of the film ’Kinsey’.
- UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking' (2004)
Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
- Further Dialogue on Pornography (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.
- Pornography and the Sex Censor (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.
- Are We Having Sex Now or What? (1992)
Questions you may never have thought to ask about sex.
- Yes Means No? (1992)
The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
- Prostitution Rights (1980)
Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
Selected Websites and Organizations
This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with education and children in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as
sexuality,
sexual behaviour,
and sexual freedom.
- Bi.org
International site for bi-sexuals. - BiNet USA
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. - Bisexual Resource Center
Information, discussions, and resources for bi-sexuals. - British Columbia Bisexual Network (BiNet BC)
An umbrella organization providing resources and networking for bi and bi-supportive people and groups in British Columbia. - Connexions Library: Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexuals Focus
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on gays, lesbians, bisexuals. - Greenery Press
Publishes books "for the sexually adventurous". - Loving More
Organization and resource for people who who wish to move beyond traditional monogamy. - QSM - Books, Magazines and Comics
Books, DVDs, magazines, and comics on SM, dominance & submission, erotic pain, and related fetishes.
Other Links & Resources
- Alternate Sources
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. - Bisexual.org
Information about bi-sexuality and links to bi-sexual sites. - The Black Rose
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." - Gloria-Brame.com
An eclectic site for literate adults. - Let it bi
French-language site for bi-sexuals. - Polyamory
- Polyamory Society
Promotes and supports the interest of individuals of multipartner relationships and families. - Safer SM Education Project
- Sexuality Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to sexuality in the Sources directory for the media. - Society for Human Sexuality
Social and educational organization whose purpose is to promote understanding and appreciation for the many forms of adult intimate relationships and consensual sexual expression.
Books, Films and Periodicals
This is a small sampling of books related to education and children in the
Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library
Subject Index, especially under topics such as
sexuality,
sexual behaviour,
and sexual freedom.
- Art and Pornography
Author: Peckham, Morse
- The Civilized Couple's Guide to Extra-Marital Adventure
Author: Ellis, Albert
- The Ethical Slut
A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
Author: Easton, Dossie; Liszt, Catherine A.
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.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
Author: Baird, Vanesse
An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
- Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples
Author: O'Neill, Nena & George
- Satan’s Silence
Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
Author: Nathan, Debbie; Snedeker, Mike
About the wave of hysteria over alleged satanic abuse of children which hit the United States in the 1990s.
- Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934
Author: Reich, Wilhelm; (Baxandall, Lee, ed.)
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
- Sexual Minorities Out South Sexual minorities in the Majority World
New Internationalist October 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.
- Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
Author: Vidal, Gore
Learning from our History
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The Connexions Calendar - An event calendar for activists.
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