JPS Volume 12, Issue 1 now available!

Enjoy the first issue of our 12th volume with these three great articles! Playdough, Mirrors, and Sexy Songs: Sex Positive Discussions with Autistic Adults through Arts-Based Methods explores what a sex-positive and crip-informed sexuality education could look like...

Freedom of Speech is Positive Sexuality

The Center for Positive Sexuality strongly condemns recent actions by ICE and other entities who have tried to stifle freedom of speech – a freedom guaranteed by the Constitution and a core tenet of the Center’s beliefs. The right to speak freely is...

October Issue of JPS Now Available!

The last issue of 2025 is out and includes some incredible articles, starting with Shipley-Gates’s Celebrating the Lives and Strategies of Black Women Digital Erotic Cultural Producers, focused on Black women’s sexual health and digital spaces. Next we...
February is still Black History Month

February is still Black History Month

Not only is February still Black History Month, it provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the social pressures at bear attempting to erase Black history. This erasure is both an attempt to whitewash history by pretending that colonial mass kidnapping and...
#TuesdayTerms: Kink vs. Fetish

#TuesdayTerms: Kink vs. Fetish

Kink: Describes a wide variety of sexual (or other) activities that someone finds pleasurable and enjoys incorporating during sex Fetish: A wide variety of sexual (or other) activities that someone must incorporate into their sex life to access pleasure  *Kinks are...