putting the sex back into sexuality

thought for the day....from the 40th annual aasect conference in new orleans:

earlier this year, nsrc presented a workshop on putting sexual literacy back into the center of the lgbt movement for equality... where it has been conspicuously downplayed for decades....our workshop filled and we had to turn dozens of people away.....we're still working closely on this with our national partners.....

then today, at the largest national professional sexuality educator and therapy conference the most well attended (by a lot) session was about sex toys. 

i think i have always assumed that sex is a big part of the sexuality education movement. after today i realize that in our quest to legitimize our profession by connecting "the sex act" to the larger social and political issues surrounding it....we have dangerously downplayed sex ourselves.

**ironic**

as SEXuality educators....i think we had better bring sexy back into sexuality education itself if we are planning to also bring it back to the center of other social justice movements....