Unshaming
A companion piece to my memoir Unshaming, here I talk about shame one post at a time. I cover addiction, relationships, sex, recovery, arts and culture. Sometimes when I feel particularly weak, I post work-in-progress.
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How To Love an Addict (opens the original)
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Is Cheating a Form of Sexual Assault? (opens the original)
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Dear Wolf (opens the original)
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No Conflict, Conflict, and His Crazy Ex-girlfriend (opens the original)
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I Was Determined Not to Become a Bitter Woman (opens the original)
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Yovita, the protagonist of Monster, rhapsodises about her love and reverence for men, how much she loves all that is “masculine” and how she “loved being under, how I loved being taken, split open, penetrated, interfered with, invaded, possessed. Crushed. Handled, mishandled. I was once a heterosexual man’s wet dream,” she says, “with my yielding, my cock-worshipping, my devotion to all that is male, I used to love almost every man I’d meet. Their hardness, flatness, muscle, and hair. Their heav
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