The woman is torn between her love for her partner and the loneliness she feels in their relationship. She is considering whether to continue the relationship, “despite the sex being great.”.. as she feels like she is only receiving “crumbs of sexual attention” when it suits her partner.
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An Emotional TikTok Reveals How Black Women Experience Touch Starvation
In a now-viral TikTok , 33-year-old Mayte Lisbeth gets vulnerable about how a recent long-term lack of affectionate touch has affected her psyche. The video’s caption — “It’s been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more of it. I’m not handling it well” — is telling in itself, but the emotional recording reveals so much in the context of the isolation of Black women in America.
The video has garnered thousands of comments from other Black female TikTokers who share similar experiences. Some make links between quarantine, technology and celibacy.
As aBlack woman, it’s hard not to watch and think of how misogynoir makes this experience uniquely relatable to me and my peers.
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