Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul (Kindle Single)
It was just a way to make the internal tragedy of my desires into a physical reality.
Andrew Solomon • The Noonday Demon
For five years, I’ve ceased to experience with shame what can be experienced with pleasure and triumph (sexuality, jealousy, class differences). Shame spreads over everything, prevents any further progress.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Maybe what’s at work is a kind of interior slut-shaming—if I suggest that such a damaging moment was the cause of my sexual activeness, then I disavow any good feelings I might have around my own sexuality. In other words, victimhood came to shape my own concept of my sexuality. When I sat down to write a memoir of my adolescent sex life, for month
... See moreClaire Dederer • Love and Trouble
how much pain and suffering must be endured before the intimate and precious part of ourselves becomes unmoored and floats away, making us incapable of normal human intercourse?