SAP stands for "sexual authoritarian puritans". The term encompasses a set of beliefs that are rooted in shaming "problematic" sexual behaviors between consenting adults. SAPs often have beliefs that overlap with right-wing conservatives, SWERfs (sex worker-exclusionary radical feminists), and TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), but SAPs consider themselves progressives. SAPs usually cloak their sex-negative beliefs in progressive sounding language and often end up targeting people with marginalized identities, particularly transgender women and sex workers.
SAP: This fictional piece of media about a kinky gay vampire and his human submissive is problematic! It fetishizes gay men and has an age gap relationship between a man in his twenties and an immortal being! I need to target the lesbian creator of this story!
A rational human being: You're being a SAP, stop harassing adults for harmless expressions of sexuality.
A rational human being: You're being a SAP, stop harassing adults for harmless expressions of sexuality.
by leatherhedonist October 13, 2020
by loe_nell October 6, 2023