The Sex Issue

Volume 7 Issue 2, November 2007

Sex is all around us. We live in a culture that uses sexuality to sell, to repel, to critique, to liberate, to repress, to empower and to trivialize. The spread of sexuality is wide, to be sure – but how deep does it run? For all the sound and fury, how many of us can claim to have taken a critical eye to the place sex holds in our lives?

Sex is beautiful. It should be embraced. What does that mean? Certainly not that everyone needs to be having it; for many it is the very absence of sex that makes it so exquisite. Embracing sexuality is something more subtle; the acceptance of it as a part of life on par with many others – bound by respect and honesty, not taboo. Accept that pleasure is not monopolized by the young, the beautiful, or the straight.

Every one of us has a sexual side that we must choose what to do with. The critical thing is to think about, and always be thinking about, the role that it plays for us. Everyone has a right to feel pleasure, to recognize the beauty of their own body, to be intimate. Enjoy it.

Josh Smyth
Editor-in-Chief