Nonetheless, Angela Davis offered a retrospective analysis of sex negative politics in a 1999 interview with fellow Black American sociologist Siobhan Brooks, noting its utility. The more layered conditions of racism and colonialism for Black women often deprived attention away from this topic to focus on issues like media representation, marriage, and motherhood. ![]() Prominent Black feminists of the same time period weren’t so explicit in labeling themselves ‘sex negative’ in their perspectives of female sexuality and its relation to the male gaze. With this in mind, she elaborates on her stance, saying, “heterosexual sex is fraught with power imbalances that don’t cease to exist because we decide to think about them positively.” Conversely, Gemma, a 19-year-old South African, is more hesitant about the term ‘sex negative’ despite identifying with many of its ideals in the context of feminism, “It’s hard for me to divorce its meaning from the hyper-Christian perspective that idolizes female chastity and negates pleasure.” She continues, “But I don’t think the collective of men are good or even safe sexual partners for women (who are attracted to men). Her views are informed by her position as a former full-service sex worker (FFSW) and although she identifies as a lesbian, all of her clients were male. “It’s women being disillusioned with the overt abuse and enforcement of patriarchal standards of womanhood,” she says. ![]() Jah, a 21-year-old Jamaican-American, understands sex negativity as a political practice.
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