Thursday, June 25, 2009
Sexual Rights are Human Rights
Robin Baumgarten (Sister Namibia)--We are doing something extraordinary - something radical - talking about sex and about pleasure. Fifty women coming together for a week to think about our bodies - breasts, arms, mouths, vaginas; about our husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, lovers. About what we’ve been taught about ourselves since before we could walk, since our first periods arrived and we grew hair on our armpits; about what we’ve been taught about being a ‘good woman’, a ‘good wife’; about what we’ve been taught about how we should - or shouldn’t - experience our sexuality.
Filed under: Gender Equality
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