A brief excerpt from my recent podcast with Beth Crittenden:

Veronica Monet:  I think women actually need permission to express desire, shameless desire, to get beyond the whole . . .   I mean I think we have this in ourselves; I think on a cellular level we all know that for 300 years our grandmothers were persecuted.  They were burned at the stake; they died . . .  at being called 'witches' and 'whores'.  And that it has been literally bred out of us to have sexual license and to be able to say, "You know, I have this desire, and I like this, and this is what I want, and this is what I'm about."  Usually . . .   I even notice this like in room temperature - a man knows when he's hot or cold.                                     [laughter]

Veronica Monet:  You bump into a man, he'll say, "Watch where you're going."  You bump into a woman, she says, "I'm sorry."                                [laughter]

Veronica Monet:  "Are you cold?" . . .  "No, I'm fine."  "Would you like a blanket?" . . .  "Oh, that's okay."  I mean, all these ways that we just abandon ourselves over and over again, instead of showing up for what we really want, because we don't even know!