The great positivity pushback: how sex negativity became normal | Dazed

Once a nude-filled wild west, the internet is now awash with censorship and rising anti-sex sentiments – here, Polyester Zine’s editor-in-chief Ione Gamble traces the rise and fall of sex positivity online

Gallery / 9 images This article is part of our Future of Sex season – a series of features investigating the future of sex, relationships, dating, sex work and sex worker rights; tech; taboos; and the next socio-political sexual frontiers. Cast your mind back ten years ago. Instagram was in its infancy; Facebook wasn’t just for boomers; and algorithms were non-existent. In the early 2010s, social media was largely unregulated, with personal branding not yet a universal plight and our selfie-editing skills only as sophisticated as Instagram’s built-in filters. More crucially, a decade ago, soci

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