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We learned, in short, the lessons that imagery would merely reinforce and keep alive over the years. We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strength, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others. In a word, we learned to dissociate, which is what such an experience of the body requires: Sexuality in this construction is located not within the self—within one’s own body and bodily sensations—but within someone else; the ignition must be turned with a key. To be sexy is to be found sexy, to be permitted to want, you must first be wanted.
Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want
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