by Alison Kent Everyone I know has at least one moment in their past where an initial exposure to sexuality, or sex, is marked by deep shame. (For me, it was, at age 8, seeing a film in Spanish where a couple were intimate; since this was in Franco’s Spain, the main character decides to keep the child instead of having an abortion. The scene itself was really innocuous in retrospect yet it left a deep mark.) This is the premise that is the starting point for Éloïse Marseille’s memoir Naked: we share common experiences of shame about our… Read More
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