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no-nightingalez · 2 months
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I don’t understand the concept of sex as the natural progression of romance. I understand having sex, I understand how it can be romantic, I just don’t understand how it is seen as the only course that romance takes.
Like love confessions immediately turning to sex is always so ???????? to me. Like ok get it I guess but how did we get here???
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foodiewithdahoodie · 5 months
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I remember taking a Human Sexuality Class, where a lot of the students thought it was going to be Sex Ed 2.0 because we saw the syllabus have topics like porn, cultural importance of procreation, and other things that had my peers giggling and expectant.
Only for our teacher to actually teach us consent and how it can go beyond the bedroom/dating, that there are different categories of rape and how the victim/survivor is never at fault, we studied serial predators and read up on how they viewed themselves as not committing actual traumatizing crimes to people/that they truly found themselves innocent after hurting others intentionally, we learned how mechanical and unsexy it is to film porn, that some porn stars are athletes with all the stamina they have, studied porn addictions and how they can rewire the brain with the visuals, we focused on how every sexuality queer or not had to fight for their sexual rights to be humanized (are still fighting to this day), we learned how promiscuity wasn't that big of a deal in ancient times with women and how it didn't "devalue" the woman, we learned about boundaries and how to uphold them, and learned how to make sex less of a taboo so more people can feel comfortable being tested for STDs/STIs on our campus and feel comfortable in their desires and body, we learned that reading erotica is very different from watching it and that they showed porn movies in the movie theaters completed with a strip show or sex show in between film showings.
It was all so informative deconstructing every stigma and myth about sex and by the end of it, most people came out with a new perspective on how they treated sex and shame and factual evidence. It was really teaching us personhood, about honoring your bodily autonomy, and that you can always change your mind even after you said "yes" and your partner should respect your decision. It saddened me that this class was only an elective and not mandatory. A lot of repressed people I took it with felt more confident in their own skin that semester.
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