What You Really Really Want (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
It’s a very sincere and urgent question, and it breaks my heart every time I hear it: But how do I even know what I want? That question haunts me because in an ideal world it would never even be asked. In a better world, it wouldn’t be that hard to know what we want, sexually or otherwise. We would be able to tell by what felt good. (Radical idea, huh?) Just as there are forces in the world influencing how we perceive our sexuality, which we explored in chapter 1, these same forces can work against us in other ways, in an effort to control our behavior. Sometimes it’s the media, trying to sell us something. Sometimes it’s our families, friends, or partners, who want us to behave in ways that make them more happy or comfortable, even if it makes us unhappy, uncomfortable, or worse. Sometimes it’s a religious or political faction that believes women should be subservient to men. Whoever it is, whatever the motives are behind their actions, the methods they use are always the same: shame, blame, and fear.
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