Slut

This is something I wrote this summer and posted elsewhere. It's time it showed up here.

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I feel like a slut. Which isn’t actually a bad thing. All woo-woo empowering language from “The Ethical Slut” and redefinitions of the word slut aside, right now, what this word means to me is that I’m a person who loves sex and enjoys it. I’m a person who might want to have sex with many people, and that’s okay. It means I’m more free to enjoy a relationship for what it IS and not what it COULD be, or what I WANT it to be “in the future”; a relationship IS and I can cherish it and nurture it and just let it evolve at its own pace.

Being a secure slut right now means finding beauty in many places and wanting to be a part of it. It means wanting to consume and create wonderful things, by myself and with others. It means having a greater appreciation for other fantastic human beings, and wanting to manifest that in a sexual way, because of how magical and spectacular and funny and ridiculous and intense sex can be.

Being a confident, partnered slut right now means connecting with others using my body, but also my brain, and really enjoying those connections, however brief or intense they might be, AND also having someone to come home to, be it myself or my primary. Oftentimes both!