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I Divest from Being ‘Sexually Liberated.’ Here’s Why…
I hung onto that phrase for decades — sexually liberated.
Went back and forth about the meaning. Did my best to discover what it looked like for me with all the examples I saw — media and community alike. For years, I talked about being sexually liberated at a hyper-local level. Shared my findings and understandings. Tried to approach it from a spiritual level, but the results all rendered the same.
Backlash. Hate. Demonized. Fetishized.
The sexually liberated movement is a continuous uphill battle with people slicing and dicing the meaning to accommodate it to their value palate. However, when we look at the words as they are, it simply means to be sexually free. Although how sexually free manifests differently. Folks like to include celibacy, and while I don’t dismiss it as a practice, the premise just rubs me the wrong way.
I’ll tackle why in another post.
Sexually liberated is a desecrated phrase.
It doesn’t give what it’s supposed to anymore. The “purities” and “pick-mes” claim the free sex crew is a poor example of self-preservation and sex sanctity, while the heauxs and sex conscious claim the prudes might see it their way if they came more often.
