"Jam" by Karen B K Chan, sexy message about sex positivity

[jesse_the_k]

I'm in love! and here's why: This fabulous captioned video. Its message is vital: a way to rethink our approach to sex.

Karen B K Chan compares sex to musical jamming (based on Towards a Performance Model of Sex by T M Millar). Like jamming, sex requires collaboration, tuning into other people, practice, practice, practice. She positively explains why any coercive sex is a losing proposition, and why sex positivity means making beautiful music together. She uses very accessible language — I can imagine it making sense to any musical kid, and unmusical 11-year-olds.

But that's not all!

The medium is stunning: stop-motion animation of Chang drawing concrete and abstract images that support her message. The visual presentation is wicked sexy. The music is, of course, a reinterpretation of Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

I can't imagine a better way to spend six minutes.

Comments

[boxofdelights]

I like that! I emailed a link to my son. I hope he forwards it to all his friends.

[jesse_the_k]

Me too.

D'you think I'm too optimistic on the age-appropriateness?

[sasha_feather]

That is wonderful and so important!

[sonia]

You're right, well worth 6 minutes. The message makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks for posting it!

[being_broken]

love!! this :-) and I don't think you're being overly optomistic, some of those eleven-year-olds might think the whole idea of sex 1s gross but that's a given with any teen/tween group and this feels accessible to not only youngish kids but also young adults or folks looking to reframe how they think about sex later on (can you tell I think a lot about sex ed?) Anyway thanks for lovely link :-)