I will share something that I wasn't planning on sharing.

I had a negative sexual experience when I was a teenager.

And because sex wasn't normalized in my house,

I wasn't able to talk about it.

And I kept it a secret for several years

from people that really should have known.

And I think that's where we have to start talking about sex

because there's so many people that have sexual trauma

that feel like they can't come forward because sex isn't a conversation in their house.

And so if someone is out there listening to this,

just know that I once felt the same way

and the way that we can end this stigma

is by taking the taboo away from pleasure.

Thank you. I love that.

Thank you for sharing that.

The things that you experience, the trauma you experience,

I am so sorry, you did not deserve that.

And I was talking to somebody recently who said the sentence to me

that has really opened up so much healing.

And that is simply rape is not sex.

And sexual assault is not sex.

That act is so much closer to violence than it is to sex.

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