Why sexuality as a BIG JOY theme?

Healthy sexuality is the focus of our May BIG JOY SPARK campaign.  Now before you discreetly turn your head the other way, we thought we should tell you why.

James Broughton wasn’t shy of sexuality, in fact he lauded it.  He wasn’t afraid to show naked people in his films (The Bed, Golden Positions, Erogeny, Hermes Bird, Devotions) or talk about them in his poetry.  It was a part of who he was, but not a sleazy, dirty, let’s-leave-this-behind-closed-doors part.  It was an active, out loud, and look-at-this-it-is-beautiful part.  He was openly in love with the naked body and the sensuous experience of being human.  He celebrated it.  He elevated it. He saw it as divine.

We think that’s unusual.  We think it’s beautiful.  This month we’ll also be publishing a post entitled “A Sex Positive Culture According to James Broughton.”  It’s (approximately) 8 axioms that we find in Broughton’s life, film, writing, and poetry that paint a more renewed, healthy, and vibrant picture of sexuality than the one that is typically offered on the subject.  (Wham, bam, thank you mam…or sir.)  It’s not sex or sexuality as an object, it’s sex and sexuality as a sensuous elevated journey.

James’ perspective is unusual.  It takes sex away from just the bare bones pleasure of it (which, don’t get us wrong, is also plain old important), and redefines it as something natural, glorious, poetic, and even something spiritual.

Gay or straight or somewhere in between, we think it’s a perspective worth hearing, and worth talking about.  And that is why we are doing so this month.  So please enjoy our posts on our Facebook Page, Twitter, You Tube, Pinterest or Instagram… in essence, wherever you happen to be.