09/16/2026
A stranger emailed me: “release the s*x tape already. be useful.”
There is so much misogyny packed into those five words. The belief that a woman’s body exists for public consumption. That speaking openly about s*xuality makes her s*xually available. That her usefulness can be measured by what she is willing to expose for a man’s pleasure.
And beneath all of it, the expectation that he could speak to me this way without consequence.
This is one of the reasons I teach women how to stop abandoning themselves.
Because when someone degrades us, violates a boundary, or attempts to make us feel small, many of us have been conditioned to turn against ourselves first.
Did I invite this?
Was I too open?
Should I have shared less?
Should I make myself quieter, less sensual, less visible?
NO.
A woman speaking about s*x is not consenting to s*xual harassment.
A woman expressing her sensuality is not offering access to her body.
A woman being visible does not make her responsible for the entitlement of the people watching her.
Being in your power does not mean nothing ever shakes you.
It means that when something does, you do not leave yourself there alone.
You believe what your body is telling you.
You let your anger carry information.
You ask for support.
You set the boundary.
You decide what happens next.
We should not have to become smaller to be safe.
We should not have to become silent to be respected.
And we do not have to abandon ourselves because someone else has failed to recognize our humanity.