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Melissa Febos

Best Article Sex Health

I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn’t Want

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.

Melissa Febos New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 20min Permalink

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The Wild, Sublime Body

Before I learned about beauty, I delighted in my body. I sensed a deep well at my center, a kind of umbilical cord that linked me to a roiling infinity of knowledge and pathos that underlay the trivia of our daily lives.

Melissa Febos The Yale Review Mar 2021 15min Permalink