Trish Everett wants all you guys who honor women to know how much you’re appreciated.
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Today I want to celebrate the men who honor us women folk and all that is feminine about us. And I want to do this not just for me, but for all women who have felt this. So dear men who honor us:
We celebrate you for accepting us for the whole of us. Our feelings, yearnings, our sensual, sexual selves, and then for honoring all of it. When you do this, it helps us to further accept ourselves. When you accept things about us which we couldn’t, we grow, we soften.
We celebrate you for seeing wonder in our bodies, taking the time to explore, uncover, and discover the hidden truth of the feminine. When you do this, we learn to more deeply honor our own bodies, and it helps women to heal the wounds of men who didn’t honor us, who pushed and held down and forced us.
We celebrate you for enjoying our pleasure. Allowing the sensual dips and licks to raise us up, in tandem, together. This helps us heal from the men who did not care for our pleasure, who snatched and ran with what only they needed. You who honor us believe and help us believe we are worthy of pleasure.
We celebrate you for standing up for women when someone wishes to tear us down, tear us apart. The men who stand up and speak when women are abused are a voice that saves many. We celebrate and honor your bravery for speaking out.
We celebrate you for your continuous commitment to consent. Your willingness to always check each step of the way that we are willing and then listening to our choices and preferences. You never force, or manipulate or emotionally blackmail. You never assume, you make sure that you know. In this our need to be respected is answered.
We celebrate your openness to learning from our feminine and to seeing what is soft, sensual, and nurturing within you. From this we love to see your pleasure expand, your intuition deepen, and your vision encompass the fullness of your masculinity.
We celebrate the way you model all this to all our sons. In this we feel hope for all our daughters.
We celebrate you.
You men who honor the feminine.
And we thank you, with respect and love.
Photo—Ashleigh W/Flickr
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