to celebrate the erotic, to feel motivated by satisfaction rather than by guilt and suffering is a radical reframe for many women [2]

The expression of women’s sexuality is often controlled by the institutions that surround us, such as our educational system. During the last half of the 2000s, the United States has spent about half a billion dollars on abstinence-only programs, many of them in schools that offer ‘abstinence until marriage’ as the only acceptable approach to preventing unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Although it can be quite helpful for young women to learn how to ‘SAY NO’ to sex they don’t really want or aren’t ready for, there is little value in reams of fear-based ‘educational’ literature that never acknowledges even the possibility of safer sexual relationships. Fear-based literature also fails to inform women how erotic touch can express both tenderness and love for one’s partner as well as one’s self. Educating women, and the men who care about us, to honor the wholeness of our sexual beings, and to be able to enjoy sex without guilt, are core messages of this project. [2]