Even if your family has done a wonderful job helping you nurture a healthy relationship with your body and your sexuality, they cannot protect you from the messages society might impress onto you. Whitney says of sexual shame, “It's in the internalized misogyny, homophobia, and sexism that we've picked up just by being in this white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist society we live in. Unfortunately, sexual shame is deeply embedded into every aspect of the world we live in, from the religions we've been indoctrinated into to the television shows we grew up watching to the things we told our own selves about sex due to traumatic experiences.”
Ashley Cobb shares a few things rapper Megan Thee Stallion's lyrics have taught us or affirmed for us about sex and sexuality. See what she's talking about inside.