It's now clear: sexuality's role in the 3rd millenium is quite similar to that of politics' in the 2nds.First proof of that is the davastating power of radical sexual behaviours on subjects like generational conflicts. While it's getting relatively easier today to address one's own homosexuality, every other deviation from what's considered "normal" is still quite troubling.
Still some sexual behaviours are as intensely personal as homosexuality: for example BDSM, whose praticantswere among the first to use the word "lifestyle" to describe themselves. For young generations, grandsons of '68, these kinds of behaviour are among the few areas of generational conflicts left, also because of the huge pool of informations they grew up with( in contrast to their parents), mainly thanks to the web.
They grew not in the tough(but sexually sweet) '70, but in the orgiastic 2000, years of Viagra, fake boobs and Paris Hilton giving blowjobs on the Internet. Mixes between sexuality, technology and activism (a fast-growins phenomenon, even in Italy) are the newest ground of battle, which is for freedom('68 produced a generation very conservative, despite free love) as well as repossesion: of bodies, and porn.
The queer community is obviously one of the most important centres of this area. One of the key pride points of that scene is the re-mixing of genres and sexual orientations.It starts from the gay universe, but is able to involve everybody else: straight people are the ones who neeed to be freed more than anybody else. This is were Sharing Is Sexy was born from this community, " a copyleft porn site, an open platform for queer people, transgender people people of color, differently abled people, people of all sizes, polyamorous people, plushies, furries, doms and othered bodies". Which means all of us, or most of. Full of smiles, pride of being different and power to fantasy: where else can you find someone having such fun with a bike? We asked a few questions to the Sharing Is Sexy collective( based in San Diego,CA) to find out more.

Rolling Stone: Your website, like others, seems to be born out of desire to reclaim porn. Can we say that?
Sharing Is Sexy: not exactly; we do porn we'd like to see, that we love and that we want to share. It's not a reaction against industrial products: it's stuff that reflects ourselves and our individual sexualities. Made by the people, for the people.
RS: Your website encourages people to share their own photos, in true web 2.0 fashion. Does it work? Is sharing so sexy or are visitors so much more than partecipants?
SIS: the situation is always changing; at the moment we obviously have a lot more visitors, but we're sure we'll get a lot of people more involved with the project. We started it as a very simple and direct website, but having to receive permissions for the pictures slows it all.
RS: The risk of being categorized as weird and exotic is ever-present: does that bother you?
SIS: From a certain point of view that's true; we use our pictures to give visibility to different kinds of sexualities and bodies, usually very little shown. But we speak to people who look for this kind or pornography, that is us, our culture. And ours' a free site: free from normal schemes but also free to evolve depending on what we receive from the outside.