AnorexiaAndBulimia

Anorexia and bulimia are two eating disorder conditions. Anorexia is when you don't eat enough and bulimia is when you throw up what you've eaten. Both happen when the sufferer thinks she (or he) is fat, although they usually aren't, usually they're unhealthily skinny. Anorexia and bulimia make you so skinny you might die. Anorexia and bulimia are deadly diseases.

So why is this on a sex education website? For two reasons. One, believing you are fat when you're really not is a result of the sexualisation of society and how we portray severe skinniness as sexually attractive. For example, the incredibly skinny Gal Gadot and Zoe Kravitz are portrayed as extremely sexy, while to me, they look like they are dying of starvation. The second reason is that most people who suffer from anorexia and bulimia are adolescents, whom this website is targeted at, mostly girls.

I said it's mostly adolescent girls who suffer from these eating disorders, but adults and some preteen girls and some boys have anorexia or bulimia, too. It's incredible the harm our sexual obsession with thinness in society is doing.

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