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Who we are
We are a group of people who got together through the meetings of the Athenian polyamory community, and specifically of Polyamorygr, the polyamory activist group Open Relationships, and the sexpositive.gr page. We want to create caring communities, to lift the veil on eroticism, and to shed a light on the entire spectrum of sexuality. We envision forms of communal sexuality that include as many aspects of it as possible, untethering sex from reproduction, heteronormativity, and penetration; celebrating consent, experimentation, and freedom to play collectively; and creating temporarily liberated zones and playgrounds for adults within cities, with care, openness, and respect.
Our vision
We want to create spaces of free expression and communication for freaks, sluts and kinksters, for asexual, hypersexual, heterosexual, lesbian, pansexual, neurodiverse, polyamorous, strange, tantric, introverted, extroverted, weird people of all genders, for the people who revolt in their cities; spaces of encounter, mutual understanding, and ecstasy, so that we can bloom together.
That is why we aim to create a Sex Positive Festival in Athens this summer, full of lectures, discussions, screenings, and hands-on workshops on the entire spectrum of human sexuality and relationships; a festival built on communal spirit and love, based on the collective work of all participants, without any profit. Our goal is for the admission to be free for all but with the option to make a donation – or if the cost is overwhelming for us, to keep the ticket prices as low as possible.
What is Sex Positivity
For us, sex positivity means accepting every consensual aspect of sexuality and not just those that are compatible with yours. It means recognizing the importance of sex education and safe sex. It means accepting that someone enjoys sex all the time while for someone else sex holds no interest, and it means supporting both equally. It means not marginalizing sex workers and supporting their labour rights.
Greek society in its majority remains particularly phobic about anything that is different, and any attempt at including sex education in schools is condemned. Women are stigmatized on the basis of having a lot of sex or not having had sex yet, and LGBTQ+ people are verbally or physically attacked on the streets just for existing. The law discriminates based on sexual or relationship orientation. We could go on and on.
On the other hand, in recent years something seems to change. Sexual minorities become more and more visible. The feminist movement is being reborn around the world. Terms such as polyamory, tantra, kink, queer, etc., enter the vernacular of more people. New TV shows and movies seem to be more inclusive, and the same goes for a lot of new songs. A different culture starts to spread. That of sex positivity.
Sex Positive Festival
We want this festival to be part of this attempt at change, as well as a space that is as safe as possible in which to enjoy life and eroticism all together, and to be educated in consent, boundaries, conscious touch, breathing, communication between bodies, and collective joy!
For this reason, and because we want the whole festival process to be part of the community we wish to create, we meet every week in the centre of Athens in order to take the next steps in this direction together. If you like what you read and if you too feel such a calling, contact us so that you can participate in this metropolitan experiment. You can help as a facilitator/activist with speeches, art performances or hands-on workshops on queerness, safer sex, sex positive activism, sex for inmates, sex for disabled people, consent and boundaries, open relationships, neotantra and sacred sexuality, conscious kink and BDSM, ecstatic dance, etc., or as a volunteer with practical tasks, spotting, photography/videography, social media management, language interpretation, and a lot more. To learn more about our next meeting, fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/UrkmYSNVFiEcuG528.
For more information, send an email to sexpositivefest@gmail.com.
*Ο Λύο Καλοβυρνάς είναι ψυχοθεραπευτής και σύμβουλος ψυχικής υγείας. Από το 2002, εργάζεται στον τομέα της ψυχικής υγείας, κάνοντας ατομικές συνεδρίες, ομάδες αυτογνωσίας και προσωπικής ανάπτυξης για γυναίκες και άντρες, ομάδες αυτογνωσίας για γκέι άντρες και πολλά βιωματικά εργαστήρια για διάφορα θέματα, όπως η (μη) μητρότητα, η σεξουαλικότητα, η γυναικεία σεξουαλική επιθυμία, οι διάφορες μορφές οικογενειακής κακοποίησης, η οικονομική-κοινωνική κρίση κ.ά. Το νέο του βιβλίο: «Μητέρα μηδέν παιδιών: Η μητρότητα ως επιλογή ή επιβολή» κυκλοφόρησε από τις εκδόσεις Gutenberg τον Ιανουάριο του 2022