Whenever I want to write about sex or drugs, I'm constantly tugged between two opposing goals: 1) I want to make people comfortable. 2) I want to actively work towards reducing the stigma around these topics. I understand and respect the idea that some people may be upest by these subjects, but at the same time, I don't think it's possible to renormalize what is "socially acceptable" without making people uncomfortable in the interval between stigma and destigmatized. 

CWs don't fix everything.

Whenever I want to write about sex or drugs, I'm constantly tugged between two opposing goals: 1) I want to make people comfortable. 2) I want to actively work towards reducing the stigma around these topics. I understand and respect the idea that some people may be upest by these subjects, but at the same time, I don't think it's possible to renormalize what is "socially acceptable" without making people uncomfortable in the interval between stigma and destigmatized. 

@literorrery They fix some!

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