“People compare themselves with what their friends, media and society say or seem to expect, even if it is untrue or unrealistic,” says Pamela Stephenson Connolly, a sex therapist. She explains that there has never before been more varied discussions of not just sex, but everything that goes with it: gender, identity, relationships, love. Yet this has not necessarily translated into less shame – or even more open communication. For many, Knowles says, the result is a kind of paralysis. “There are all sorts of small doubts creeping into people’s minds about what it is to be sexual, and even how.”
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