Nobody marries fat girls. This ingrained three terrible falsehoods into my under-developed belief system: 1. Sex is all about male pleasure. The worst part is that in his own dark and twisted way he was trying to protect me from the world he knew I was growing up into. Many men are very visually, sexually and emotionally attracted to women with larger more curvaceous bodies. They act out these desires in the shadows, hiding fat women in their bedrooms and dismissing the encounters as booty calls.

Skip navigation! Story from The 67 Percent. Maria Del Russo. People ghost. They fetishize. Those who seemed nice in their profiles turn out to be total fuckboys after the first date.

My body is healthy, beautiful, and strong. To celebrate it, I have copious amounts of sex with the man who loves every single inch of me. Our sex life is ahhh-mazing especially the foreplay.

I was 16, a size 14 and it was — long before body positivity hit the mainstream or my Tumblr feed. Now, as a year-old woman wearing a size 20, the shagging game has changed year on year as my body has gotten bigger and the dating pool has gotten smaller. The latter is the most insulting.