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» Sex Tips for Young Folk from Kate Bornstein's "Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and...
- Sex doesn’t have to mean marriage, children, or even I love you.
- Sex can be right this minute or next year some time. You get to decide. And you get to change your mind about that whenever you want to.
- Sex can be a passionless quickie.
- Sex can be any way you imagine it can be. Sex doesn’t have to be any way you don’t want it to be.
- Sex doesn’t have to be with one person all the time or even with one person at a time. Sex doesn’t have to be with anyone but yourself. You get to control the guest list.
- Sex doesn’t have to happen with anyone of the same race, religion, gender, age, class, education level or body type as you.
- Sex doesn’t have to be for free. You can buy, sell, or trade sex for things if you need and want to do that.
- Sex doesn’t mean you’re a slut or a whore, unless of course that’s what you’d like to be.
- Sex doesn’t have to be genital and you don’t have to do it in private.
- Sex doesn’t have to end with an orgasm for everyone.
- During sex, you can be any gender, age, race, class, animal, object or alien life-form that you’d like to be as long as you both or all agree that’s what you’re safely being together.
- Sex doesn’t have to be in the missionary position.
- Sex doesn’t have to happen on the bed in a bedroom in the dark.
- Sex can be really yummy, sick-o, gross, painful, scary, bloody and/or degrading when you all or both agree to do it that way safely and respectfully together.
- Sex can be hilariously funny.
- Sex can be a lovely gift you give someone or someone gives you.
- Sex can be a blessing, a prayer, and a generous act of healing.
- Sex can involve costumes, props and a script.
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