Well that's exactly it, when we assume we should feel shame we assume that the shameful and bad portrayals and forms of sexuality are the only ones that can exist. It's like capitalist realism but for sex
This fit my experience growing up to a T. I was a teenager with unsupervised internet access, so a lot of the stuff I "learned" from sex came from material that treated misogyny, slut-shaming, and violence as a given. Discovering work that portrayed sex as something that could be founded in mutual enjoyment and respect was such a watershed moment for me.
Well that's exactly it, when we assume we should feel shame we assume that the shameful and bad portrayals and forms of sexuality are the only ones that can exist. It's like capitalist realism but for sex
This fit my experience growing up to a T. I was a teenager with unsupervised internet access, so a lot of the stuff I "learned" from sex came from material that treated misogyny, slut-shaming, and violence as a given. Discovering work that portrayed sex as something that could be founded in mutual enjoyment and respect was such a watershed moment for me.