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Sexologist Carol Queen tells the history of this culture-changing movement, whose roots lie in the emergent academic discipline of sexology in the 19th century, and argues for the value of establishing sex-positive cultures in a world full of diverse desires and boundaries. “Sex-positive” describes both a movement of radical intellectuals and activists and a social philosophy. The term doesn’t simply mean an enthusiasm for sex, although many sex-positive thinkers have criticized the cultural repression of sexual desire and pleasure. Sex-positive philosophy seeks to replace sexual shaming with the argument that human sexuality is enormously and perhaps infinitely diverse and changeable. In other words, there is no one definition of “normal,” nor should there be.