Fucked : on being sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes.

London : [sexcritical@gmail.com], 2014.

55 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Title from cover.

"This zine comes out of multiple conversations that we, as a group of south London-based queers all involved in varying levels with the local radical/queer/feminist scene(s), have been having repeatedly over the past couple of months. A common sentiment amongst us was feeling left out or alienated by discourses of sex-positivity and the way these discourses are enacted in daily life, in our interpersonal relationships and the spaces we inhabit. We noticed taht this often manifested in pressures to feel/perform desire, to be (or be seen to be) sexually active, to have relationships or date people, to do non-monogamy (or do it in a specific way), to have fulfilling/pleasurable sex or to have certain kinds of sex. These all seemed to be things that very few people were talking about, and it still feels taboo in some way to bring them up now. Whilst we believe that everyone should have complete autonomy over their bodies and their sex lives and that sex-positivity has gone some way to combat the oppressive patriarchal structures which prevent this from being so, we feel that too often, sex-positivity ignores or obscures the lived experiences we have to exist with, and unquestioningly posits a new form of happy, fun, uncomplicated sex which, if you're not participating in, only makes you feel shittier. This zine is not written as an academic critique of sex-positivity; instead, it details some of our thoughts and feelings which we have found are incredibly difficult to enunciate but important to say. This is why none of the pieces are attributed to specific people: just to be able to publish these things with some level of anonymity is hard enough."--From introduction.

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