Body Image

Name: Body Image
Uploaded: 2024-02-22T11:00:33+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Vanessa Marin
Description: Vanessa Marin, a professional sex therapist, discusses her lifelong struggle with body-image thoughts—particularly during sex—tracing them to early…

22 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Vanessa Marin, a professional sex therapist, discusses her lifelong struggle with body-image thoughts—particularly during sex—tracing them to early socialization through media (magazine headlines) and describing how even after therapeutic work the internal critical voice persists. She notes having developed tools to manage these thoughts but emphasizes how deeply and early body-shaming messages take root.

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Like, I can't even conceptualize what it would be like to not think about your body during sex for me, and I think so many women will relate to this. Growing up, I was just constantly bombarded by magazine headlines. I can still see them in my head right now, like checking out at the grocery store with my parents belly pooch and fat rolls and cellulite and jiggle. Even now, being a professional sex therapist, having done all this work on my own relationship with my body, there is frequently that voice in the back of my head saying, oh, there's a belly roll. Oh, there's a jiggle. Oh, there's a. You know, don't do that. Like, that could look weird. And I have tools now where I can ignore it. I can move past it. That's what I mean about the socialization. It gets in so young. It gets in so deep.