Current Focus
The Codex
Desire is not free. It is shaped, sold, performed, and inherited.
First Edition Releases July 31, 2026
Selling the Art of Sexuality
A diary-style cultural codex on desire, visibility, power, intimacy, shame, attention, identity, and self-governance. Sexuality is not one dimension. It is a reflection point where identity, risk, shame, attention, intimacy, money, fantasy, reputation, and self-worth collide. This book does not sell sex. It sells the design language behind desire. Stop asking, "What's wrong with me?" Start asking, "What is this pattern producing?"
The First Edition is The Codex Edition: the foundational author-led framework for reading desire, shame, visibility, access, attention, identity, and self-governance as patterns. The Witness Archive opened June 26, 2026 and remains rolling. The Second Edition / Witness Account Edition opens June 1, 2027.
Edition Structure
Two Editions, One Cultural Record
Selling the Art of Sexuality now unfolds in two editions. The First Edition builds the system. The Witness Archive gathers the evidence. The Second Edition expands the record.
First Edition: The Codex Edition
Releases July 31, 2026
The First Edition of Selling the Art of Sexuality is the foundational Codex Edition. It introduces the core thesis, chapter system, archetypes, pattern-reading method, visual case-file structure, and self-governance framework.
This edition does not depend on witness accounts to be complete.
It establishes the language.
Join Release UpdatesWitness Archive
Opened June 26, 2026
The Witness Archive is an open, rolling testimony layer for people whose lives have been shaped by desire, identity, visibility, shame, intimacy, attention, public labels, or self-governance.
Witness accounts are gathered with care and may be considered for the archive, website features, future releases, or the Second Edition.
Contribute Your Witness AccountSecond Edition: Witness Account Edition
Opens June 1, 2027
The Second Edition will expand the Codex through selected witness accounts, contributor perspectives, testimony fragments, and archive evidence gathered through the rolling Witness Archive.
Open Witness ArchiveThe Book
Synopsis
Selling the Art of Sexuality examines desire as architecture: a system of access, performance, labor, restraint, and power. The book combines codex, field research, interviews, and visual documentation to map how sexuality moves through modern life.
Open Call
Contribute Your Witness Account
The Witness Archive opened June 26, 2026 and remains open as a rolling testimony layer. There is no submission deadline. Contributors may answer when they are ready and may be credited by name, handle, or anonymously. Faces may be hidden if requested.
Author
Sergio Anthony Lopez Jr.
Sergio Anthony Lopez Jr. is a multidisciplinary artist and systems thinker whose work explores desire, power, sexuality, performance, and cultural infrastructure. Selling the Art of Sexuality formalizes a codex on intimacy, visibility, and restraint.