I Shed Cultural Shame to Embrace Pleasure

And realized that sexual double standards hurt everyone

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Remy Loz

As I grew up, religious repression kept me abstinent; I had to escape the fear of hellfire. But by college, I became rebellious. Recently I realized that my sexual activity puts me in the top one percent of promiscuous women in America… and I’m only 27 years old.