“Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.” IfsLongNightSexMeetingsVery GoodRadicalAll NightStrippingSex Work Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private."” IfsGivingKindDifferentMatterDesireFightingSexPossibilityRight NowGive MeEngagementDifferent Kinds Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.” WorldWayMaySexMaking Love Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.” PeopleWayGivingBodyDesireSexPracticePossibilityGiving UpClaimsProfoundNervousDistinctiveArticulating Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.” PeopleThinkingGivingDesireOpportunitySexCommunityMissingMovementPossibilityBuildingGiving UpTraditionShameProfoundAshamedTerrifiedOur LoveEmbeddedCommunity BuildingBuilding Community Author:Amber Hollibaugh
