For science, I spent a week breathing into my cervix for 10 minutes every day and trying to imagine my vagina as some sort of sacred energetic space: I tried to learn to 'Fuck Like a Goddess'
, which is the ultimate aim of her book. Roxo argues that all people, but mainly women, have been conditioned to make themselves smaller and to deny themselves sexual liberation because of social and religious constructs. Roxo’s theory is that all it takes to reclaim sexuality is to confront any and all sexual baggage, put it in a neat box, and stash that box somewhere where you can’t reach it ever again, or, as she phrases it, “putting your feelings in a container.
After I wrote down my very boring and mildly traumatic sexual history, it was onto the next ritual: talking to myself in a mirror.
When we begin to think about the internalized shame and pain associated with the female body, we cannot skip over the place that perhaps holds the most guilt and fear of all . . . the part that has been named “private” and covered and hidden away under nylon panties and tight thongs, stripped with hot wax and plastic razors. Call it your pussy. Your yoni. Your cunt. Your vulva. Call it what you will.
Finally, after a little over a month of healing, Roxo suggested I have some sex. “Begin listening here,” she writes. “For example, if it is dry down there, it may mean that the heart and the cervix are not connected. Unless you have a medical issue or even dehydration, dryness may be a signal that the mind is too busy and more presence, breath, and connection are required.
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