Iāve know that my body was, that I am a sexual object ever since I was 5 years old.
Iāve been made aware time and time again of how people will desire me. I have been catcalled and harassed in the streets since I was 11.
Maybe thatās why I clung to old clothes and shoes, hoping that if I wore them that I would look too young to desire.
Men twice my age ask for sexual things when I walk down the street. They whistle and their eyes follow me because they donāt register me as human. They wink and smirk. Some put their hands on my body, tug me onto their lap.
I first thought of myself in terms of fuckability when I was 9. Because men made comments. Because I would someday have to marry a man and have his children and be his property.
I have been defined as some manās property since birth. First my father, then whoever decides they want to marry me.
I am not allowed to make my own decisions. My father has to decide appropriate clothes, how self confident I get to be. I will not be allowed to choose if I have children, or sex, that will be my husbandās job.
Men have ruined my life. I never wanted to be sexy or desirable, I was just weaker. I never wanted people to stare and touch me.
I just wanted to make friends, because I had none, because I was so alone.
Then a group of boys pinned me to the wall, told me to take off my clothes, all of them. One boy told me to take my glasses off too, so they could break them.
I have been objectified and reduced to a vessel for pleasure before I even knew about sex.
Iām 16 now. I still define myself by fuckability, desirability because my dad destroyed my self worth, because I was taught that I wasnāt worth anything if people donāt want me.