After reading The Ethical Prude: Imagining an Authentic Sex-Negative Feminism, someone mentioned to me that they thought that some radical queer spaces were to some extent outside of the problematic aspects of sexuality described in the article, in part because of the value those spaces place on individual sexual agency. (Their question wasn’t as strongly worded as the title I’ve used above, but I’ve heard the title question before as well.)

To both questions, here’s my response: