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What Everyone Got Wrong About Sex Positivity (And Why We’re Still Not Really Sex Positive)

What Everyone Got Wrong About Sex Positivity (And Why We’re Still Not Really Sex Positive)

Leave it to society to bastardize a brilliant idea.

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Ossiana Tepfenhart
Nov 14, 2021
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Leave it to society to bastardize a brilliant idea.

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Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s was kind of a mindfuck — especially if you’re born a girl like I was. Society sent us a bunch of weird messages, ones that were often enforced by everyone around you:

“Be sexy, but don’t have sex.”

“Look flirty, but don’t have sex…

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