One exists in Canada. It's called The Sex Party of Canada. I learned about the Canadian Sex Party while putting together a lens on sex and politics, the intersection of power and desire.
Here's the platform for the Sex Party, as I've summarized it:
- Create an Institute for the Advanced Study of Sexual Policy.
- Enact educational reform to "establish a comprehensive national education program in sexual health and hygiene" and a "school sexual education program that encourages sexual activity - but in a gradual and disciplined way"
- Repeal laws against public nudity, prostitution, sexually explicit performances, anal sex under the age of 18, written descriptions of sexual activities involving children
- Protect the right to expression of sexual needs among those in long term care facilities and create sex nurses to help assist in this expression
- Create a Sex-Positive Press Council to combat censorship of sexual material in the Canadian press
- End confiscation of sexual materials by customs officials
- Liberalize mail codes regulating the shipment of sexual images not clearly pornographic or designed to shock
The sex part isn't so much what interests me about the Sex Party. What interests me more is the fact that such a political party exists.
In Canada, such political parties can exist and have some influence because of the parliamentary system. Here in the United States, we have winner-take-all legislative battles. So, the focus is district-by-district, and there are absolute winners and absolute losers.
The Sex Party has picked a sexy issue, to be sure. What other interesting, non-sexual issues, are being addressed in Canada through the parliamentary system that we don't ever touch here?
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