I was taught that men took something when we had sex but I’ve resisted. should be no surprise that sex confused me growing up. Ever since I realized I would someday have it (around puberty), I was bombarded with contradicting messages. On one hand, I was told women wanted sex very much. I was shown this through imagery almost everywhere I looked. Red lips, big breasts, shiny hair, fluttering eyelashes. Female sexuality was used to sell almost everything, and even as an adolescent I understood this. I was taught that the female desires and is desired. I read article after article in my teen magazines about females and their sexual wants and urges. Women were pleasure-seeking creatures — this, if I could believe what I saw in the fashion magazines.
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