Ways to get involved in sex-is-sacred.org

Does the idea that sex is sacred seem important to you?  Does it resonate with your life experience?  We certainly hope so!  If so, perhaps you feel like making a contribution to this site, and to the changes we hope will occur. 

So, contribute!

We don't need money at the moment (although that could change if the site costs get too high), but we would really, really appreciate any sincere contributions of your own thoughts and experiences that you're willing to take the time to make. 

Everybody is different.  Part of what we're trying to celebrate is that endless diversity, but we can't do it without your help.  You don't have to write elegantly, and you don't have to be providing advice or answers — all we ask is that you write honestly about sexual things that have been important to you, and that you don't leave out the painful or embarrassing parts.

Email stories or articles to: submissions@sex-is-sacred.org, and your thoughts or comments to: feedback@sex-is-sacred.org.

Editorial policy

If you email us something to put on the site, here's what we'll do:

• First, we'll read it to see where on the site it would fit best.  We want to be as inclusive as possible, but if we feel for some reason that what you've sent us just doesn't fit here, we'll write back and explain why not as best we can. 
• Secondly, once we figure out where it fits, we'll edit what you sent us.  Usually, this involves what's called a "line edit," where we change the way sentences are phrased to make the story clearer and easier to read.  Sometimes, we'll also make changes to the way you've organized things.  We do our best during that process not to change the basic way you express yourself — we want people to hear your voice as they read what you've written. 
• Thirdly, we send back to you the edited version and tell you where on the site we're thinking of putting it.  At this point, you can approve what we've proposed, or you can make further changes to further clarify things, or you can simply decide we've messed everything up and you don't want us to post your writing after all (we hope that doesn't happen!).  At this point, we go back and forth until we obtain your approval to post the piece. 
• Fourthly, once we've received your explicit approval (including the name you want the piece posted under and other information like that), we'll put your piece up on the site.  Note that you retain ownership of whatever you submit, but our copyright statement at the bottom of every page allows anyone to copy what we post as long as they credit the author properly. 

Join our bulletin board

Another thing you can do, as long as you're over 18, is join our bulletin board [not yet implemented], which we hope can serve as a community for informal discussion of issues that the site raises, and brainstorming about opportunities for creating new sex-positive art.

Other kinds of collaboration

One thing we're trying to do is encourage people to experiment with the medium of photoNovellas to create erotica out of their own lives and experiences.  We believe that giving individuals the ability to tell their own stories visually in a relatively inexpensive, accessible and artistic way will serve as an antidote to the obsessively rigid, stylized forms of almost all commercially available porn, including most Internet porn. 

As a result, we want to start a community where we can share information about how to create and distribute this new art-form.  Such information would include:

• Legal and organizational suggestions about how to go about creating erotica in an ethical and equitable way. 
• Technical information, including software tools we build, to help create and display photoNovellas. 
• Publishing tips and information.  We're even thinking of setting up an eCommerce site where you could sell photoNovellas you create (although again, we'd have to reserve the right not to carry anything that seems to us in conflict with our mission here).