From Public Sex -- The Culture of Radical Sex 
by Pat Califia, pp. 153-156:

        FORTY-TWO THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO 
           MAKE THE FUTURE SAFE FOR SEX

Defend an abortion clinic.  Help women get through
right-wing pickets and into the building. 

Write a sex ad. 

When your newspaper says police are cracking down on
prostitution, call the police and tell them you don't like
them spending your money to bust hookers.  Then write a
letter to the paper saying the same thing.  Urge the
government to decriminalize prostitution.  Nobody should
have to go to jail for trying to make a living. 

Write a weekly letter to your congresspeople.  Ask them to
repeal RICO laws, vote against mandatory sentencing for
drug offenses, allocate more money for addiction-treatment
services and family planning, fund more research on breast
cancer and AIDS, and shut down the Justice Department's
antiporn campaign.  Remind these rich enemies of the
asshole that being poor is not a crime.  The money we now
spend on building new prisons should be spent to bring jobs
to the inner city and to build better schools.  The League
of Women Voters can tell you who your representatives are
and give you their addresses.  Be sure to send a copy of
your letter to the Presidential Bubba. 

Study sex. 

Write a weekly letter to your mayor, officials in city
government, state representatives, and governor.  Tell them
you oppose sodomy laws, laws which make solicitation
illegal, and laws that force sex offenders to register with
the cops.  Tell them you vote. 

Vote. 

Oppose attempts to get states to adopt a lower standard of
obscenity (often known as the Miller standard). 

Give away some pleasure. 

Join a group like the American Civil Liberties Union (Dept.
of Public Education, 132 W. 43rd St., New York, NY 10036),
Californians Against Censorship Together (1800 Market St.,
Suite 1000, San Francisco, CA 94102), Feminists for Free
Expression (2525 Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108),
the National Coalition Against Censorship (275 Seventh
Avenue, New York, NY 10001), the National Campaign for
Freedom of Expression (1402 Third Ave., No.  421, Seattle,
WA 98101), Planned parenthood Federation of America (810
Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019), or Coyote (2269 Chestnut
St., Suite 452, San Francisco, CA 94123).  These groups are
fighting for your sexual freedom.  Be sure to enclose a
stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request for
information. 

Find a new fantasy. 

If a convenience store is being picketed for carrying adult
magazines, walk in and buy one.  Tell the manager you
support her or his decision to carry the materials the
customers want.  Make art about how sex feels. 

If an antiporn group is photographing the customers of an
adult bookstore, turn up with a Polaroid and take pictures
of them. 

Write a love letter to an unlovable part of your body. 

Organize a benefit for the Little Sister's Defense Fund and
send the money to 1221 Thurlow Street, Vancouver, B.C.,
Canada V6E 1X4. 

Do regular self-examinations for breast or testicular
cancer. 

Teach somebody how to come with a rubber barrier. 

If your city initiates a crackdown on baths or sex clubs,
write to your elected representatives and send a copy of
your letter to your local newspapers.  Tell the powers that
be that you want a clean, well-lighted place for random
encounters with randy strangers.  Don't forget to mention
that having safe sex in a public place is much more healthy
than having unsafe sex at home in the privacy of your own
bedroom. 

Seize the moral high ground.  Be righteous in your
indignation. 

If somebody tries to ban a book at a school or public
library, go to the hearing, you wouldn't believe how easy
it is to win these battles if you just show up and speak
up.  Keeping books about sex in the libraries is even more
important than keeping them in bookstores because they are
free and more people see them (especially young people). 

Look at a cervix.  (Hint: Annie Sprinkle is not the only
woman who has one!)

Find out what the sex education curriculum is like in your
local schools.  If you think it is inadequate, express your
concerns to school officials.  You don't have to be a
'parent to do this.  Everybody gets taxed to pay for free
public education, so we all have a right to shape public
policy.  Young people need to know about birth control,
safer sex, and homosexuality.  Look at your genitals. 

Tell record stores that you don't want labels on your
music.  Tell your state representative you don't want laws
that limit what kind of music young people can buy. 

Do not be shamed.  Do not be stampeded by fear. 

If your pharmacy keeps condoms behind the counter, ask that
they be displayed where people can buy them without
having to ask for them.  Tell the manager that she or he
will sell more of these items if the customer can avoid
embarrassment.  Ask for latex gloves.  Ask for dental dams.

Ask for water-based personal lubricants.  Ask for leaflets
about AIDS and safer sex. 

Write to a prisoner. 

Call ABC, NBC, and CBS (both the national offices and your
local affiliates).  Tell them you want to see condom ads
during prime time. 

Tell gay organizations that you want them to support the
First Amendment and start tracking obscenity cases.  Tell
them you want to see them supporting needle-exchange
volunteers.  Tell them you want them to defend sex workers
who get arrested.  Tell them it's time to put the sex back
into homosexuality. 

Keep your eyes open the whole time. 

Organize a benefit for the Spanner defendants, gay men who
were sentenced to prison in England for practicing
consensual S/M: write a check payable to the NLA Spanner
Defense and Education Fund, Account No. 01-7008237800,
Central West End Bank, and mail it to Woody Bebout,
Treasurer, P. O.  Box 8224, St. Louis, MO 63108. 

Crossdress. 

Talk to a sex worker, a transgendered person, a celibate, a
sadomasochist, a heterosexual -- anybody whose sexual
identity or practices are different from yours. 

Masturbate, and don't hurry. 

Tell video stores that you enjoy being able to rent X-rated
videos. 

Give up the concept of trying to control other people's
sexual tastes.  It will give you more time to develop your
own. 

Make or buy a sex toy. 

Volunteer for a rape crisis center, a shelter for battered
women, or an AIDS hotline. 

Hand out clean needles and free condoms.  If you can't do
this, give money to the people who are doing it for you. 

Organize a neighborhood patrol.  Let bashers know they
can't get away with hate and violence in your little part
of the world. 

Live a long time and make waves.  The name of this ride is
"Rock the Boat," not "Pretend You're Dead Already."
 
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