PUBLIC SEX

By Melissa

Is it an issue of moral purity? Sex that is. Is sex only right if there is a man and a woman in the missionary position? Why does society try to tell people who and what they are? Does pornography promote violence against women? These are all valid questions brought up within the introduction to Pat Califia's book Public Sex. 

Lesbians were denied a place in history because writers were ashamed to address the fact that they even existed. How can we acknowledge the trifles of a people if we can't even recognize their existence in our past. Women as a whole have always been considered "less than the male" half of our species in every way it counts. Women can resist male dominance and even the restrictions of heterosexuality without being lesbians.

Females have been killed, mutilated, imprisoned, and suffered hundreds of other penalties for searching sexual satisfaction with each other and denying man. Feminist have no write to dismiss any lesbianism as a tool used within patriarchy. Believe it or not all women, regardless of their sexual orientations, are fighting the same fight for sexual freedom and equality. Women's sexuality can only be addressed in terms of death and disease. Things must change. A new sexual revolution must begin on behalf of all women everywhere.

 "Drug abuse is a gay issue because drugs work even better than orgasms to ease the pain of being different." Powerful words that reflect a harsh reality. if gays are excepted as equals within our society, then they would not have to tern to other means to ease their pain. Drug abuse is societies problem for all people who feel as though they don't belong. Read about the issues. Get in the know. Take a stand and be the change we wish to see in the world.