Summary of Sophia Benoit's Well, This Is Exhausting - E-book - ePub

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I grew up in a household that was not prudish about sex, but I still got the message that sex was wrong because of the general silence and discomfort around the topic. I was fat, and in my mind, fat people were not allowed to be sexual. #2 I grew up believing that I was not sexually desirable because I was fat.
The media I was consuming only reinforced the belief that I needed to be thinner in order for someone to ever want me. #3 There are few depictions of young women being horny in popular culture. Masturbation jokes were a way for women to normalize their own sexual appetite. Love was not cool. I believed for many years that romantic love was gross and overrated. #4 I had a crush on almost everyone I saw from the time I was five years old.
I was convinced that the zenith of human experience was someone being attracted to you. This belief caused me no problems whatsoever.