Gloomy.

Purple Magazine SS13, Photos Brett Lloyd. Styling Tom Guinness

Flora by  Egill Bjarki Jonsson

Damien Hirst

Dazed September 2000 issue 69

Emily Ratajkowski: Baby Woman

The implication is that to be sexual is to be trashy because being sexy means playing into men's desires. To me, "sexy" is a kind of beauty, a kind of self-expression, one that is to be celebrated, one that is wonderfully female. Why does the implication have to be that sex is a thing men get to take from women and women give up?

I refuse to live in this world of shame and silent apologies. Life cannot be dictated by the perceptions of others, and I wish the world had made it clear to me that people's reactions to my sexuality were not my problems, they were theirs.