1. Adultery in the United States
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. American Fascists
   The Christian Right and the War on America
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
3. Beware the Secret Sex Police
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1989
   From the days of Anthony Comstock and the 1873 Comstock Act to the present, the U.S. Justice Department has been infested with a small band of moral vigilantes who use its power and that of the Postal Service to prosecute and persecute a carefully selected few publishers, small businessmen, and ordinary citizens for 'illegal' or 'obscene' activites of a personal nature in the area of sex.
4. The Bisexual Identity
   Changing Perspectives on Sexuality: Contributions of Kinsey and Anthropologists
   Resource Type: Article
   Cross-cultural comparisons highlight not only the differences in how sexuality is perceived, but the power of such constructs on sexual behavior.
5. Communism and the Family (Part One)
   The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
6. Communism and the Family (Part Two)
   The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
7. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1989
   
8. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
9. The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   The anti-sex frenzy springs from the agenda of the religious right. Espousing an ideology supposed to have something to do with women's rights, the feminists might be expected to oppose this witchhunt. Instead, there is a convergence between feminism and religious reaction in support of moralist repression. This is particularly evident in the "date rape" frenzy on the campuses which has recently grabbed headlines across the nation and the world. Egged on by feminist witchhunters, "politically correct" sex on campus serves the war on privacy by whitewashing the intrusion of the campus administration and the cops into students' personal business as "protecting women" and "stopping rape."
10. David Bowie, rock star groupies and the sexually adventurous '70s: "Labeling us as victims in retrospect is not a very conscious thing to do"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Salon speaks to sexologist Carol Queen about the shifts in morality around an era of sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll.
11. Defending Pornography
    Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.
12. Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The private lives and sexual choices of fully formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand -- and certainly impossible to judge -- without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business. That's a very good reason not to try to sit in judgment and condemn from afar.
13. The Ethical Slut
    A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
14. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
15. The Folklore of Sex
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    A collection of materials illustrating American attitudes to sex, love and marriage.
16. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
17. Group marriage
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Is a form of polyamory in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit.
18. A History of Mistresses
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    
19. The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
20. Love Locked Out
    A survey of love, licence and restriction in the Middle Ages
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    A study of the irrepressible sexuality of the Middle Ages, describing the attempts of the church to impose a morality on libidinous medieval society, and shows how they were frustrated at every turn.
21. Loving More
    New Models for Relationships
    Resource Type: Website
    Organization and resource for people who who wish to move beyond traditional monogamy.
22. Loving More
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    A newsletter published by PEP (Polyfidelitious Educational Productions), a group marriage journal and network. Previous title was PEPTALK; name was changed to Loving More starting with the Spring 1991 issue (Issue #26), and to Loving More Magazine ins 1994. Some copies of this publication are in the Connexions Archive.
    See also the Loving More website www.lovemore.com.
23. The Mass Psychology of Fascism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
24. The Morning After
    Sex, Fear, and Feminism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
25. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
26. The Party of Eros
    Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    King looks at radical theorists -- Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown -- who have attempted to deal with the intersections of eros and power.
27. Polyamory
    Resource Type: Website
    
28. Polyamory-Related Books - Open Marriage
    Resource Type: Website
    
29. Pornography and the Sex Censors
    A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
30. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
    
31. The Rebel Girl: The New Sex Police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    IN AN INTERVIEW for the “Hungry Mind Press Newsletter” (Issue Number 3, Summer 1998), Leslie Brody, author of Red Star Sister: Between Madness and Utopia (Hungry Mind Press, l998), a memoir of her stint in the White Panthers (a short-lived anti-racist radical youth group—ed.), responds to Dallas Crow's question “Why a memoir of the sixties now?”
    
32. Revelations
    Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
33. Satan, the State and Anti-Sex Hysteria
    Unholy Alliance of Feminists and Christian Right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    A lengthy review of two books about the anti-sex witchhunts in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
34. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
35. Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    On the experience of marriage among the working and middle classes in Britain between the end of the first world war and the early 1960s. It does not cover the experience of gays and lesbians, bisexuals, or heterosexuals who did not marry.
36. Sex and Consent on Campus
    "Yes Means Yes" Law: Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Amid an ongoing debate over sex and consent on college campuses, in September California passed "affirmative consent" legislation, which was followed by a slew of similar initiatives nationwide. The pretext is to curb a purported epidemic of sexual violence and have college administrations come clean on reporting sexual assault complaints. But legislating one form of consent as the only acceptable variant and branding all else as assault -- as these new policies do -- means that these administrations now have even greater power to enforce what is acceptable sexual activity among students.
37. Sex and Ethics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1963
    In America, as it is at present, most behavior -- and this is not only in sexual matters -- has nothing to do with what one is or would normally desire or naturally desire, but what is pected of one or in order to provide something which has got nothing to do with the functioning of it.
38. Sex in History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    Tannahill draws on the findings of anthropology, archaeology, bio-chemistry, genetics, physiology, and psychoanalysis, as well as art, architecture, literature, and theology, in order to place the human sex drive and its social and moral consequences in their widest historical perspective.
39. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
40. Sex, Scandals and Power
    #MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.
41. Sex-Pol
    Essays 1929-1934
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
42. SexSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
43. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
44. Social and Sexual Revolution
    Essays on Marx and Reich
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    A collection of essays by Bertell Ollman. Ollman tackles issues such as Karl Marx's concepts of class, class consciousness, and communism; he argues for the absorption of Wilhelm Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and he dicusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying its central purpose as an instrument of class struggle.
45. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Original title: History of American Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
46. Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
47. Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism
    Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it.” Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.
48. Unwanted Advances
    Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2017
    Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis. Anyone who thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress is deranged.
49. US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
    Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
50. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
51. Western Sexuality
    Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times
    Resource Type: Book
    Examines homosexuality, sex and the Church, prostitution, and notions of love and marriage.
52. Whatever Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
    What would a future anthropologist make of the bizarre and seemingly contradictory assortment of information on sexuality available today?
53. Yes Means No?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.

Experts on Sexual Morality in the Sources Directory

1. Loving More
2. Museum of Sex