"Some sociologists argue that in U.S. culture, girls and women experience a “symbolic clitoridectomy.” In other words, even though women have clitorises in the physical sense, conversations about the clitoris are absent from discussions about sex. This is ironic given the hypersexualization of women’s bodies in mainstream media. When the clitoris is symbolically removed its importance is wildly understated, and presumed insignificant in sexual play."

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The Clitoris: Most. Awkward. Discussion. Ever! | SociologyFocus (via linzyxxxxx)

We also have a PIV (penis-in-vagina) centric society when it comes to any discussions of sex. That is, that women need penises to have orgasms, and that most women who have PIV sex experience orgasms, which is simply untrue.

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"You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly. You can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn’t conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive."

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Audrey Hepburn (via fuckyeah-audreyhepburn)

Self esteem is a bewildering creature. To think that Audrey Hepburn, of all people, felt these things..

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I am eating dry rice cakes

weissewiese:

“I have been eating poetry…”

writes Strand. I have been eating poetry for breakfast: honey on pancakes, three peonies in a vase on the table, humming. I have been eating poetry for lunch: turkey and cranberry sauce with rocket and olives, Brahms in the background, cider in a glass, soaking sun. I have been eating poetry for dinner: tomato and basil soup with toasted wholemeal bread and creamy Brie as white as moonlight on this soft sober night.

"In The Hunger Games, kids in poor families take out extra chances in their District lottery — that is, extra chances to die — in return for extra food rations; in ours, poor kids enlist in the military to feed their families and maybe escape economic doom. Many are seduced by military recruiters who stalk them in high school with promises as slippery as those the slave trade uses to recruit poor young women for sex work abroad."

- Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality? | TomDispatch (via nickturse)

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comakid:

the most beautiful poem that i am capable of writing right now is your full name.