Safe Sex Bill of Rights

I'm reading the mass market paperback of Safe Encounters, the small, "pocket-sized" volume. And it really is a compact, 200-page guide to safe sex. It features diagrams, glossaries, even an "Extragenital Matrix" (what the authors later term "outercourse"), where one axis charts where on the body one likes to be touched while the other describes the kind of touch one wants.

The "Safe Sex Bill of Rights" is an important component of Ogden and Whipple's speaking engagements for the book. It's comprehensible and compact, much like the paperback. The item featured here is exerpted from the presentation transcript, but they also included a flyer version to use as a handout. It sums up the book's goals to bring awareness to one's own agency as well as personal responsibility:

"Being responsible for yourself means you have power. It means you don't have to be a victim of unsafe sex or a perpetrator of it. It means you do whatever it takes to learn how to choose partners who are responsive to your well-being. And it means you learn how to communicate your needs and desires." (Safe Encounters, page 138)