1. We are respectful of others' feelings, and when we aren't sure how someone feels, we ask.
2. Friendship is an excellent reason to have sex and that sex is an excellent way to maintain a friendship. (48)
3. Being able to ask for and receive reassurance and support is crucial.(66)
4. Remember to honor the courage it takes to ask for support, the share vulnerable feelings. (66)
5. Faithfulness is about honoring your commitments and respecting your friends and lovers, about caring for their well-being as well as your own.(66)
6. Once you have made a commitment to spend time together for and reason, keep it...(68)
7. By treating lovers as people, and letting relationships take the shapes they want instead of the forms forced on them by the culture around them, ethical sluts can form friendships that last as sex waxes and wanes. (81)
8. The real test of love is when someone sees our weaknesses, our stupidities, and our smallnesses and still love us. (119)
9. Avoid treating your partner as a resource for getting your rocks off.(176)
10. You must value and welcome all of your lovers as the wonderful, brilliant, unique human beings that they surely are. (211)
I have listed ten points that I have taken and applied in my life. By reminding myself of these I have already seen an increase in my inner happiness and peace with myself.
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