Why Women Don't Give Themselves Permission To Be Sexually Desired By Anyone Other Than Their Husbands

"Nearly all of us hold a very limiting, inaccurate, controlling perspective of sex due to trauma, and so we only feel safe expressing ourselves sexually within confined spaces like marriage. We don’t feel safe enough to be sexual in any other dynamic where our deep, emotional need to feel connected and committed to someone in fear that they will abandon us is left up in the air, like a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, a one night stand, or a friendship with the opposite sex."