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Embracing Your Sexuality

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

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The Importance of Sexual Liberalism in Feminism

Culturally we're given the idea that the most ideal female is sweet, is selfless and pure sexually. So because we kind of idealize that as the kind of ideal feminine, so warm, so kind, I think a lot of women move from sort of this ideal maiden idea into marriage. And it's much more in a frame of accommodating the desires of others, the good girl. She may have sex out of that accommodation, but she's certainly not in a place to kind of say, I like sex and these are the positions I most enjoy it. Just to have some sense of ownership and desire, it's been kind of excised from her culturally.

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