None of us are unscathed by shame-y ideas about #sexuality. Even in the most liberal of households, we’re still exposed to #popular #culture, which offers up a bevy of mixed messaging around sex. Women should be sexy, but not sexual. #Men should always want #sex, and women probably don’t want sex. #Vibrators are addictive.
Porn is addictive and will ruin your life. #Gay men are promiscuous. There is no end to the messed up, and decidedly untrue, things we hear. There is a need to explore the reasons we want what we want during sex, because so many of us are lacking information and are therefore left feeling alone in our desires.
That isn’t a comfortable place to be. Many of us might admit, at least to ourselves, to being drawn to darker desires. Humans are hard-wired to want things we cannot have. Why do we automatically turn the taboo into titillating? Let’s explore the science of so-called “sin.”