at the book reception being hosted by Woodhull and VenusPlusX/Columbia. Extremely psyched. Biggest problem: I have TOO MUCH to say! But will hammer on the subject nearest and dearest to my hosts' (and my) hearts: sexual freedom. The theme is central to my book, which plows through anti-sex dogma out there. For example, the twisted history of how we came to believe why things which are good for you (such as masturbation) are bad, while things which are not good for you (such as circumcision) are healthy. And then there's how we grant greater social status and legal rights to people who have man-on-top-woman sex than to people who have man-on-man or woman-on-woman or non-penetrative intimacy. Wouldn't you love to be an alien Anthropologist writing a paper on the society that divvied up social rights according to sexual behaviors? I'd be embarrassed to be an earthling.
When you compare public attitudes towards sex and the data about how sex is lived and experienced, the gulf between them is alarming. We are 21st century people suffocated by 19th century ideology that's crammed down our throats by uneducated theocrats. My book's mission is to snuff out some of the stupidity and candidly look at the facts we know.
I think I'm ready to talk. Back to jotting notes.
