Posted by Dinah on May 10, 2008, at 14:42:40
In reply to Re: Talking about Shame **triggers** sex too » ClearSkies, posted by llurpsienoodle on May 10, 2008, at 6:56:02
I think I'm lucky in that respect. When I was in my crucial teen years, I had a tight group of friends both male and female. While we were trying to figure out the whole concept of sex, and before any of us had any real working knowledge of anyone other than ourselves, I had some pretty frank, and yes intimate, discussions with both my female friends and my male friends.
There was a mild sexual charge to the conversations with my male friends, but it wasn't overwhelming. (I wasn't that unattractive in those days, either.) So in that respect sex is pretty low on my list of difficult topics. Both money and body image come way higher.
I know not everyone had that easy comfortable experience of talking sex in a nonsexual way with the opposite sex, and I realize how lucky I am in that.
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