The Shame Culture of Sexual Activity

Even once you're sexually active, like it is a recent development that even adult people talk to each other about whether it was good or bad. And I think it really does create, even if you're not growing up in sort of a religious context, that shame culture around your body and the way that your body works. It's wild to me that we can know so much and learn so much about our bodies and that somehow everything below the waist and above the knees, it has to be like mysterious.

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