Sex + Love

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Weddings can be anxiety-inducing and filled with dread for those of us that don’t drink. Attending weddings as a sober person can often feel lonely and about as fun as having dental work without novocain.

The thing is, we soak in these body-judging lessons from a very young age, before we even know how damaging they are. Some of the messages are implicit, like when we see a fat girl getting made fun of on the playground (or, for many of us, when we are the fat girl getting made fun of on the playground) and learn that being fat is not just wrong, it’s a punishable offense.

Both virginities were lost to friends and I wore needless belts on both occasions, but that's where the similarities ended.

“It’s almost as though this niche was patiently waiting for us to find it.”

The Kinsey Scale test labeled me a 2, or, "predominately heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual," one notch above "equally heterosexual and homosexual."

9. Use Timeouts—For Yourself!

In my checkered past, long before I was a member of the PTA, I sometimes worked behind the scenes in X-rated films