As sex educator Emily Nagoski described in Come as You Are, we all have a “sexual response system” that functions like a car, with an accelerator (that picks up on “erotic stimuli,” or reasons to have sex) and brakes (that picks up on reasons not have sex, like responsibilities, life transitions like losing a parent, or racism/misogyny/other socially oppressive forces).
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