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Your Body, Your Rules

Self-respect is the way they respect themselves, not the level of respect you hold for them

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Your Body, Your Rules
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What they wear. How they do their makeup.

The number of people they take to their beds. The pictures they have on their phones.

None of it is your concern.

I understand you wouldn't do it; there are a lot of things none of us would do that others would take part in regularly. It still does not give you the right to judge them or look down on them for it.

If some girl or some guy wants to sleep with a new person every night or every week and you don't, the simple solution is to ignore it.

You don't have to acknowledge it or take part in it. You don't even have to associate with them.

You do have to respect them as people and understand that the way they choose to live their life has nothing to do with you.

We're all old enough that we should know this, but I guess the concept of respect and minding your business is still foreign to some.

Not surprising.

Humans are naturally nosey and you can't expect too much free thinking in a society that polices women's bodies on a daily basis.

However, you can always control your reactions when faced with a woman you think is showing too much or sharing too much of themselves.

Sexual Promiscuity.

Not all of us are for it.

We all fall somewhere on the "Sex & The City" meter that is Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte or Miranda. For every Samantha, there's a Charlotte, but I think we should all remember that while Charlotte might not have agreed with Samantha's lifestyle, they still got along. Charlotte didn't give Samantha a dirty look every time she passed by.

What about their self-respect?

What about it? Self-respect is the way they respect themselves, not the level of respect you hold for them.

The amount of people they sleep with is not a representation of how much respect they have for themselves. I don't think everyone holds their self-respect within their sexual organs; it sounds uncomfortable and bulky.

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