TEN
CAMPAIGNS
1.
PROSTITUTION
Prostitutes should not be working outside the law, as this leaves
them vulnerable to exploitation. They should be revered and respected,
just like other specialists. Many are talented in the work they
do. It is a job which most of us could not cope with, nor telling
our partners and families this is what we do for a living. Once
brothels become legal, sex workers will hopefully gain more status.
My vision is that they could find employment in some wonderful
establishments, providing wheelchair accessible, disability friendly,
pansexual services for singles as well as couples, and even polyamorous
groups!
The
Sex Salon - One on every high street! Offering Well-Woman
and Well-Man clinics, contraception and safe sex advise with testing
and counselling; sex therapy; outreach: sending sex educators
to schools; erotic massage; swinging, fantasy and S/M workshops;
help in finding partners with contacts and seduction training;
surrogate work; sex lessons; and everything people might need
to improve their lives. Chad Varah, founder of The Samaritans,
set up a 'Brenda' service for men who make 'dirty'phone calls.
He offered free sympathetic phone-line support from women, to
help these men, and wean them off their habit. The problem with
commercial services is that they tend to feed off guilt and encourage
the client, in what both he, and others, view as an anti-social
habit. The Sex Salon would supply services along the Brenda lines,
to help people rather than exploit them.
The
Bawdy Brothel. These are local-run 'family'concerns, i.e.
not run by corporate multinationals. Warm and colourful, and deliciously
vulgar, they provide a flirtatious environment where clients can
actually test the chemistry with prostitutes before committing
themselves to the deal. The sex takes place in private boudoirs,
orgy rooms and perhaps rooms with the door ajar. Sexy music has
traditionally evolved in such brothels, e.g. jazz in New Orleans.
Campaign
to decriminalise prostitution and promote excellence in the industry!
2.
PORNOGRAPHY TO MAKE US HAPPY, NOT SAD!
One is forever hearing discontent about porn, the SFC sometimes
wondered whether it was worth campaigning for, as it was so dismal!
We have to remember (a) that it is very difficult to make good
porn and (b) distribution companies and sex shops are geared up
for selling what is available. Change is not easy. Anyway, here
are my own dreams:
• no censorship. It is horrible watching porn in the knowledge
that officers of the State have seen it first to decide it is
suitable for us to view.
• encouragement of porn stars to be creative and free to
make their own choices. They should not feel obliged to have unsafe
sex or plastic surgery. It is horrible to watch porn worrying
that the actors might have been pushed into things, and been surgically
mutilated in order to get work.
• great exhibitions for eager voyeurs - perfect harmony
• less hard, soul-less aggressive porn, more loving tenderness
• wank-imagery which is exciting, inspiring and profound.
Porn which is predictable and insults the intelligence is depressing
and addictive - leaving the viewer with a continual search for
pleasure. We want to feel blown out and satisfied.
Campaign
for porn to satisfy all potential markets without exploiting actors
and staff!
3.
SEX FOR EVERYONE
Thanks to the media, people increasingly confuse sex with beauty.
You don't have to be deemed beautiful to be sexy. In any case,
beauty can be found in all shapes and sizes. It can be appreciated
on the inside as well as superficially. Outgoing and charming
people can usually find partners easily, but not always so. People
with Aspergers Syndrome, for example, have no idea how to go about
it. Things are not always what they seem, and society needs to
become more aware, and more accepting. Campaign to promote disabled
and disfigured people as desirable!
Campaign
to recognise everyone's potential for, and right to sexual happiness!
4.
NO MORE COSMETIC SURGERY
Women's mags preach the benefits of cosmetic surgery, even though
it has long been known that the more cosmetic surgery people have,
the more miserable they become. Porn encourages females to get
silicone breast implants. It seems criminal to encourage people
to have their breasts cut, reducing the level of potential pleasure,
just to impress others or get more work in the porn industry.
Campaign
against cosmetic surgery!
5.
ANTI-SEX PROPAGANDA SHOULD NOT BE INFLICTED ON EVERYONE
Anti-sex, puritanical influences come from both traditional religions
and new-age religions. Whether people are told to be anti-sex,
or make their own choice, or believe so because it is part of
their faith, they still need to respect those of us who do not
agree. Puritanical people, hypocritical people, the masses who
live double lives, and the openly sexy people: we all need to
become mutually tolerant, just like any other social groups. The
media exploits our differences, by feeding "naughty" stories about
sexual adventurers to the puritans and hypocrites. The stories
make them feel superior, but at the same time, titillated. This
kind of journalism has been defined as Double Pornography. It
is exploitative (five of my friends have died as a direct result
of News of the World exposés) and perpetuates intolerances.
It has got to stop!
Anti-Sex
dogma is not limited to the gutter press. Jo King who started
the London School of Striptease was censored on a chatshow on
Radio 4. Dee McDonald of the Centre of Sexual Wellbeing, invited
onto Women's Hour to speak about swinging, found they rudely turned
their backs on her and listened only to the lady from Relate.
Radio 4, Britain's most serious channel in Britain, winner of
several 2003 Sony Awards, ridicules sex and censors sexual debate.
Campaign:
abolish sex licences!
6.
SEXUAL CONFIDENCE, NOT SEXUAL IGNORANCE
Aspirational magazines, once limited to motor cars, fashion and
soft porn, have progressed deeper into the psyche. Readers and
audiences are made to feel inferior and insecure, comparing themselves
with suave, good looking, fit, sexually experienced high earners.
They are automatically driven to the adverts for Viagra, sex toys,
psychics and cosmetic surgeons, hair transplants and expensive
exercise machines. This helps the magazine but not us. We need
to help people learn to resist having their confidence undermined
by manipulative magazines, programmes etc.
Despite
the trend for Reality Television, many of the people we see in
magazines and on the Internet have been doctored on computer using
Photoshop. Wrinkles, tummies, chins and blemishes are removed.
Even posture can be improved! That would be OK if we were made
aware of this doctoring, not made to feel ugly in comparison.
Many women would gain from taking lessons from sex workers: strippers,
phone sex line women and prostitutes to give them a stack of expertise
and confidence. Men would gain from education on many different
levels, and most could do with a moral boost after the onslaught
of the feminists who have put them down for over two decades.
Campaign
to promote Sexual Confidence and Education!
7.
REMOVE GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS ON THE SEX INDUSTRY
Striptease and Nude Performance licences have recently been made
obligatory in most councils. Temporary licences cost about £100
but a permanent licence cost as much as £30,000! A notice has
to be pinned up outside the venue, to invite objections from the
public. Objections can only be on health and saftey grounds, not
moral grounds. Why has stripping more heath and safety risks than
other theatre or performance? It is a scandal!
Sex
shop licences are so difficult to obtain that many areas of Britain
have no sex shops at all. Unlicenced shops get raided by the Trading
Standards Authority. Once obtained, sex shop licences cost about
£20,000 a year and this levy gets passed onto the customer. Why
is sex being singled out for taxation, when it was once the only
pleasure we enjoyed for free?
Campaign:
abolish sex licences!
8. LIFT ALL RESTRICTIONS ON SEXUAL ACTIVITY BETWEEN CONSENTING
ADULTS
The SFC has been campaigning for the past seven years and there
HAVE been some improvements: the Home Office and one or two politicians
are beginning to listen. But never polititians in power. The Spanner
Trust is frustrated by the fact that not one MP is prepared to
make a case for the basic human rights issue of the decriminalisation
of consensual SM. MPs are too lazy to reform our ancient Common
Law Offences, designed to keep us all in our sexual place.
Campaign
to force politicians take sex seriously!
9.
LOVE AND SEXUAL FREEDOM COULD SAVE THE WORLD
This was the vision of the 60s, and we really believed it. We
knew that tyrants like Hitler were sexually repressed, and hoped
once everyone became liberated, there would be world peace, mutual
understanding and an end to exploitation. Call us naive and simplistic,
but who would have predicted what would come along as our enemy?
It was those men hating, sex hating feminists who destroyed our
dream. Then AIDS arrived to scare sexy people into celibacy, monogamy
and depression. And then kill many of our sexy friends.
Campaign:
The Sexual Freedom Coalition aims to reverse this process!
10.
MORE, AND MORE VARIED SEXUAL FUN FOR ALL
If men became less predatory and women took more responsibility,
the sexes would become more equally balanced. If everyone became
less homophobic, we would be more relaxed. This would open up
society for much more fun - people could feel relaxed on sexy
naturist beaches and in sex clubs, in fact everywhere! Everyone
could enjoy sex like never before. Exciting new scenes would evolve,
beyond swing and fetish scenes.
Campain
for sexual equality, against homophobia and encourage the growth
of new sex scenes!
