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Aella
@Aella_Girl
1/When I was eight, I was molested. The experience wasn't scary or painful, just confusing and uncomfortable, because I didn't understand what was going on. After becoming an adult, I experienced a strong incentive to reinterpret what had happened to me as-
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Erez Shinan
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Do you think there's a connection between the experience and your casual attitude towards sexuality? In the sense that the associated societal taboo has lost some of its meaning, and what was previously unthinkable became somewhat "normalized". I hope I'm not being insensitive.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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No worries! As I've responded to a few other commenters, I think it's highly unlikely the molestation affected my sexuality. There's several other explanations about things that influenced my entrance into sex work that are waaay more compelling to me.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@erezsh
And plus, at the time the thing that happened to me wasn't sexual, to me. I didn't have a conception of sexual. It was just a really confusing thing. I came out of the experience with zero change in my sexual worldview because I didn't have any worldview.
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