The Silhouette of Female Desire
Desire reveals itself in many forms—some prickly, some mundane. To some, it is a familiar sensation. To others, it can feel like their throat drying up as their words retched in it. To few, it looks like the struggle of choice and autonomy. Desire resides somewhere between longing and secrecy. For most women, the shadows that follow their desire have shadows too.
“The worst thing you can be is a happy brazen woman,” journalist and author Lisa Taddeo unhesitatingly sets forth to Roxanne Coady, host of podcast. In a patriarchal society that dictates women must accept and relinquish themselves to the reality of silenced desires, judgment and guilt are
