Many adults still remember it well: that one conversation that was supposed to happen at some point. The conversation about sex. About contraception. About puberty. About the first time. Sometimes it happened at the kitchen table. Sometimes in passing, between one thing and the next. Sometimes not at all. And sometimes a book was simply placed in the child’s room, in the hope that the most important questions would somehow answer themselves. Even today, sex education is often

Why body shame is not an individual failure, but socially learned There are feelings we would rather push away as soon as they appear. Anger.Envy.Jealousy.And somewhere in between: shame. Shame is a strange feeling. It is one of the reasons why certain topics become taboo. At the same time, shame itself is a taboo. Hardly anyone openly talks about what they feel ashamed of. That is not surprising. Because shame is tied to the fear of being judged, ridiculed, or devalued. It b