Let's start off just by saying....

...that being comfortable with your sexuality is not an easy thing.  It can take a lifetime and a half depending on the person's situation or lifestyle to fully accept themselves for who they are. Whether you are gay, a person of color, a person of size, man, woman, or someone who feels like they were born with the wrong body - it is a difficult journey to discover who we are as people. What most people do not realize is that being content with your sexuality is the same exact journey.

If we cannot be comfortable with our sexuality, with our bodies, with our lifestyles, then how can we as humans ever be happy with ourselves?

Let me also just propose this: Think about the times in your life when you felt the most appreciated, the most attractive, and the most loved...the most comfortable - were you by yourself? Was it you making yourself feel sexually desired? Or was someone with you, provoking these positive thoughts, bringing out the "appealing and sexual" side of you? I can respond to that question by honestly saying: No. When I think about the times when I've felt loved or the sexiest I've ever felt, it was someone else making me feel that way. This is not to say that I need someone to make me feel good about myself....but it sure does help...right?

This issue is why I decided to start L.U.S.T. - Listening and Understanding Sexuality Together - a forward thinking feminist support activist group that is dedicated to the promotion of self-love and body image awareness. L.U.S.T. has given me and several others the opportunity to express frustration and create appreciation for one's own body. It is so imperative to feel comfortable in one's body. But if you don't feel comfortable in the skin you are in- always wanting to change or rearrange features, starving yourself, or covering yourself up- who's life are you living? Why is the body treated as a project always under construction? And furthermore, if we as women and men, but ESPECIALLY women, cannot express ourselves sexually how on earth will we evolve as a human race?

This blog is a free space for anyone to post anything they'd like having to do with sexuality, love, happiness, body image, equality....whatever motivates or inspires you to express something, do it here. This is not a place for insecurities, it is a place for social change. It is a place for loving yourself for exactly who you are.... and if I have my theories correct, that means that this is a place of revolutionizing the ways we think about the world around us. So let's get started by saying: LUST yourself and join our revolution.