Theme & Character Lists: Anti-Sex / Sex-Negative Cultures

They might do it all kinds of ways. Even though most of western culture is in some ways anti-sex, especially christian culture, works listed here have a specific anti-sex component in their socities. Often an excessive fear of AIDS or some AIDS-like disease is cited ...

• Charles, Renée M. "Nudes Ascending a Staircase" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (lesbian models sit for a dyke pornographer in an anti-sex society in which pornography is banned)
• Claiborne, Sybil. In the Garden of Dead Cars
• Donovan, Rita. The Plague Saint
• Monteleone, Thomas F. "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975). (A future world in which physical sex is banned; virtual sex mediated by machines is the only allowed sex; genetically engineered breeder women are kept in tanks to birth children.)
• Orwell, George. 1984
• Sheppard, Simon. "Blackout" in Sexcrime: An Anthology of Subversive Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan (Circlet Press: 2000) (Gay men in a post-virus world where sex is frowned upon.)
• a story I read long ago about a society with runaway viruses, in which everyone wears masks and gloves. a group of people who are disease-free fuck only each other, until one of them sleeps outside the group. oh what, what, is the name of this story?

  Film / Video

• "The Deflowering" by Alyce Wittenstein. Not exactly anti-sex, but full body condoms and test-tube babies are the way to go.