OUR ETHOS
Our drive is not self-fulfilment. Our drive is love, passion, and compassion for everything surrounding us.
Our priority is not private benefit. Our priority is becoming helpful to the others and making of our work something useful to present-day societies.
Our focus is not self-realization. Our focus is human well-being, general benefit of the communities, and overall prosperity.
Our purpose is not consensus or utopia. Our purpose is to create and to share.
Our commitment is not to ourselves. Our commitment is to life.
We advocate freedom and individual human rights, yet always in equilibrium with selflessness, spirit of service and solidarity.
We will support, encourage and promote personal growing and individual development, but only in function of common well-being and the common good.
We celebrate all human bodies.
We respect and support all races, all nationalities, all gender identities, all sexual orientations, all forms of spirituality, and all non-destructive lifestyles. Our only adversary is selfishness.
We don’t try to unify perspectives or traditions: any culture is a world in itself, and there are as many worlds as cultures on planet Earth.
We celebrate multiplicity, heterogeneity and diversity, indeed, but in balance with social equity and social justice, plus accessible information, public research and empowering knowledge experiences for anyone.
It is about empowering ourselves and empowering other people, but learning how to lose our ego and learning how to channel and diffuse that power into the environment.
It is not only about making human life better: it is about cultivating a clever, caring and heartfelt coexistence with all kinds of forms of life on Earth.
It is about pleasure without exploitation.
Hedonism without egoism.
Freedom without self-centeredness.
Love without attachment.
Joy in solidarity.
Ecological ecstasy.
And spiritual bliss.
OUR PROPOSAL
We are convinced that the intimacy of human sex life is the most fruitful and strategical instance of everyday life to start cultivating new ethics and new ways of living built on values as selflessness and solidarity. Therefore, the personal time for pleasure constitutes, always, the best moment to unlearn and abandon normalized individualistic ethics and egocentric ways of living.
This is why today, more than ever, it becomes so helpful and useful to interconnect our sexuality with some kind of spirituality. The pertinence and relevance of spirituality lies in its cultivation potential: a potential of cultivating values as selflessness, solidarity and spirit of service among human beings.
We know that spirit of service is the key to live a happy and plenty life.
We want to share that knowledge and that experience among people.
The S&SRN tries to get in touch and share knowledge with many different kinds of communities.
The S&SRN does not promote a particular model of sexuality.
The S&SRN does not promote a particular form of spirituality.
Every sexual and/or spiritual choice, of course, depends on every case of the decisions made by each singular individual and the cultures and traditions of their respective self-governed communities.
Yet, without any pretension of “universality”, some ideas can be convenient and beneficial for quite different cultures. Some spiritual but not religious approaches to sexuality can be useful today, not only for secular cultures—including atheists and agnostics—but also, for religious cultures as well.
Regardless of the above-mentioned central proposal, the S&SRN offers a multiplicity of projects, with a great variety of specific ideas and particular proposals, sometimes even in opposed sides of the political spectrum. Dissent and heterogeneity are not only positive but necessary if we try to construct together.
We see how sex and sexuality are becoming today privileged territories, not only for start changing ourselves first, but for raising, guiding and educating the present and the next generations of human beings—perhaps, the only way to resolve the structural problems of sexuality in globalized societies.
We feel that advising, counselling, orientating, guiding, and educating people on sex and sexuality is the only process that can leads us to cultivate a better tomorrow.
Thus, in synthesis, this is our perspective:
If we want to start resolving the structural problems of sexuality in globalized societies,
we need to start transforming our sex lives right now.
If we want to transform sex lives, we need to cultivate new ethics and new ways of living.
If we want to cultivate new ethics and new ways of living, we need to generate knowledge.
If we want to generate knowledge, we need research to create models, programs and guidelines for sex education, sexual health, sex life therapy, sex life cultivation, history of sexuality, gender empowerment, arts of making love, and practice-oriented spirituality, just to name a few strategic initiatives.
So, if we want to produce and diffuse pertinent research outcomes among communities, we can collaborate and work together in a global research network.
With humbleness and conviction, this is what we try to do.
Join us!
NETWORKING GUIDELINES
1) Let’s be trustworthy: let’s be reliable about the information we give when we are networking and let’s be rigorous about the work we want to share when we try to get published.
2) Let’s be constructive: let’s try to be helpful and useful as much as we can through our contribution.
3) And let’s leave our egos out of the conversations, debates, discussions, and presentations. We can dissent and disagree both being polite and without drama. Let’s not be that serious about ourselves!
PRIVACY STATEMENT
• The S&SRN does not require personal information of the users of the website. We will collect user’s information if we are interested in collecting your work for a publishing project, or if you represent a community or an organization looking for counselling.
• The S&SRN does not use personal data for private profit.
• The S&SRN is not responsible for the opinions and perspectives of the contributors to the projects.
• The photographs of this website can’t be used without permission.
• The bodies photographed for this website have not been photoshopped or digitally manipulated.
WHAT WE DON’T DO
• We don’t facilitate any kind of sexual encounters or sexual interaction.
• We don’t produce or diffuse contents for underage children.
• We don’t prescribe any kind of medicines. We don’t try to supplant medical or clinical processes.
• We don’t try to replace universities or higher education institutions. We don’t issue certifications.
• We don’t pretend to supplant public or governmental organizations. We just propose models.
• We don’t pay for articles or research projects—sorry, we can’t afford it! We are only looking for what you can share.
