S-E-X, Easy as 1-2-3, A-B-C? by blogger Emily

You meet a guy. He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s handsome. He seems like the whole package. Within one minute of meeting this guy, you already know if there will be a future or not. What makes it so easy for us women to decide that the guy standing in front of us deserves the second date?

Simple. It’s the sex factor.

Sex gets in the way of everything. Whether you’re having it or not, I can almost guarantee it has effected your life at some point or another. Sex bounds us to another person in more ways than some. It controls the way we think about people, the way we act in relationships with other people, and the way we see ourselves.

Whether you’re a virgin or you’ve slept with the guy next door, you cannot let sex control your every move. We must remember that it does not effect other people but only ourselves. You should never be forced into anything you should not or do not want to do for that matter.

If you say “yes,” then it means yes.

If you say “no,” then it most definitely means no.

Coming from a romantic in the 21st century, love and sex are generally the same term. However, we must learn to love our bodies before we let someone else do the same. Although sex can take over our lives, I think it is time we let this stop. It is up to us to empower our own destinies and take back anything that is rightfully ours. We decide what we do with our own body, we decide what we want, and we know what we deserve.