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Dr. Jo's avatar

Thank you, Christina. This is such important information. Women are taught in overt and covert ways to be ashamed of their bodies and deny, distrust, or judge sexual urges and desires. The Latin root of the word pudendum, a woman's external genitals, means to be ashamed.

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Christina Tasooji's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing. You are 100% right. It's both heartbreaking and infuriating that our power has been manipulated into the source of our shame.

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Dr. Jo's avatar

Exactly. Women's power is so limitless and threatening that men have attempted to perverse and overtake our sexuality.

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