How to cultivate inclusive sexualiaties

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Another extract from Plummer, K. (2015). Cosmopolitan Sexualities. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. This one on how to cultivate inclusive sexualities, from pp. 103-104.
 

1. “Cultural sexualities: Appreciate the varieties of cultural sexual and gender differences and complexity, and the struggle between he local and the global.  
2. Contested sexualities: Recognise the ubiquity of agonistic conflicts and look for peaceful resolutions.  
3. Dialogic sexualities: Know yourself, recognise the sexual other, identify power and move towards a common mutual horizon.  
4. Empathic sexualities: Understand others – appreciate and maintain dialogue with your sexual partners and their worlds.  
5. Caring sexualities: Be kind – care for the sexual other as well as your self, and work to reduce violence.  
6. Just sexualities: Seek justice – create free, fair and equal sexual and gender relations.  
7. Dignified sexualities: Foster human rights and dignity – respect others, their sexual dignity and their sexual and gender rights, being aware of their fragility and vulnerability.  
8. Flourishing sexualities: Encourage lives to flourish – foster relational flourishing for all across gender and sexuality.  
9. Pragmatic sexualities: Stay grounded and be practical – keep at it, it’s not easy!
10. Hopeful sexualities: Be positive and work for better worlds for all – keep hopeful in sexual relations. Reduce sexual harm and foster peace.”

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