Manifesto of Sexual Freedom

From: loebner@ACM.ORG (Hugh Loebner)
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:45:28 +0000 (GMT)
Organization: ACM Network Services


            M A N I F E S T O   O F   S E X U A L   F R E E D O M

BELIEVING that LIBERTY was to have been the sweetest fruit of INDEPENDENCE;

DESPONDENT because adults are daily being arrested, fined, and jailed by
reason of engaging in commercial sex with other consenting adults, or
facilitating such behavior;

ASSERTING that commercial sex is demeaning only when an intolerant and 
puritanical society defines it to be so, and makes it a crime;

REJOICING that homosexuality, which was once considered a *perversion*
and a *crime*, today is generally viewed with tolerance and respect;
and that those who, in the past, oppressed homosexuals are now remembered
with  *scorn*; and those who today oppress them are considered *malevolent*;

UNDERSTANDING that there is a legitimate state interest in reducing the 
prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, and that this can be better
accomplished by the *regulation* of commercial sex than by its *proscription*;

EMBOLDENED by the belief that the toleration of prostitution is the 
cause of LIBERTY, that it is the cause of HAPPINESS, and that it is a cause 
with SEX APPEAL;

BE IT RESOLVED therefore that June 9, 1996, and every June 9th thereafter,
is declared to be, and henceforth shall be observed as, END SEXUAL
OPPRESSION DAY; and that

CONSEQUENTLY, those who understand this to be so, and are in accord with
this sentiment, shall petition their local government by promenading at
their City Hall at lunch time on 6/9/96, and on every June 9th 
thereafter, carrying a sign with the demand:

                       "END SEXUAL OPPRESSION"

written thereon, until sex between consenting adults is nowhere a crime
in the United States of America.
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