Atlas Obscura: a great site to get lost in. Search out sex and fertility obscura.
CARAS: Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities: research on alternative sexuality, geared toward BDSM.
From History Today, on how 18th century women wrote their sexual memoirs in a repressive culture.
Wikipedia’s entry for Jocelyn Elders: learn about this very remarkable sex-positive Surgeon General. It’s a Wikipedia page, so use it as a starting point!
Project Gutenberg: full text for many, many works in the common domain.
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, a reading series.
The Leather Archives: a museum in Chicago dedicated the history of the leather subculture.
The Malleus Maleficarum: this manual to hunting witches is a terrifying look into the past, into a cultural moment with no real understanding of science, gender equality, or sex-positivity.
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation: view the work of and learn about Robert Mapplethorpe, whose gay and S&M themed photography once caused quite the scandal.
National Coalition Against Censorship: good resource for learning about past censorship battles.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom: get the scoop on the legality of many sex policy issues, from how to legally host adult parties to traveling with sex toys.
Center for Reproductive Rights: this organization focuses on sex rights and the law.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project: lawyers fighting for the right to self-determine gender identity and gender expression.
Rare Erotica, brought to you by Russ Kick.
Sex Workers Art Show, a traveling exhibition!
Supervert: includes Supervert’s (interesting, to say the very least) projects, but also, full texts of the works of Bataille, Sade, de Quincey, Baudelaire, Benn, and Schwarzkogler.
Transcript of a radio interview series with a porn star, the ACLU, a Supreme Court lawyer, and ROCK president Bryan Wickens. Really encapsulates the arguments of each perspective well, and sex-positivity comes across very well.
Woodhull Foundation: “affirming sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.”
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