“We’ve all lived too damn long lugging around this puritanical notion that pleasure must be villainized to protect us from ourselves. Fuck that. Seriously. The only question you need to ask is this: Is everyone involved in full personal safety and enthusiastic consent? Ask it loudly and repeatedly if you need to. Yes? Then you go with your bad, brilliant, beautiful, pleasure-filled self. Our bodies are here to feel good. And what makes that happen isn’t for anyone else to decide. It doesn’t matter whether you’re outside the gender binary, into collars and restraints, love someone with the same parts, desire more than one human, or have a kinky turn on others think is weird. Monogamous, polyamorous, relationship anarchist, vanilla, kinky—whatever your flavor, it’s valid. We’ve all wasted way too much damn time in the closet. End of story.” Personal FreedomSex PositivitySexual AutonomySexual EmpowermentEnthusiastic ConsentBody LiberationConsensual PleasureKink AcceptanceOwning Your DesireRejecting Purity Culture Author:Jeanette LeBlanc