I feel the same, Breezy~Day. I know it is silly, but it feels degrading to be looked at like a piece of meat - because I know it is only my body being looked at, not me. It is just the shell of me, the "container", and I hate being reduced to that. I think hamster is lucky to see things the way she does, but it's not as easy as just getting a grip on yourself or relaxing - especially not when I hear others, particularly boys, of around my own age talking about strange women they see on the street. It's shocking and almost sickening, and it makes you think they only see these women as some sort of **** dolls. Which provokes me.

All of this has even made it troublesome for me to go out or to hook up, because I get obsessed with the thought that whomever is just interested in my body (unless we talk a lot about interesting stuff and we connect) and that I could just aswell have been any other girl, it doesn't matter because my body is all he cares about. Especially concerning casual hook-ups.

Other people tell me: Why is this so bad? But I can't really explain it. It's exactly like you feel that I feel, it somehow goes against my moral compass of the body being pretty irrelevant when it comes to people, and it goes against my feelings of personal integrity. It feels like someone putting their hands on me and groping me all over.