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Why pregnancy makes your body feel public property

I'm pregnant for the first time and everyone keeps touching my belly without asking and I don't know how to reclaim my bodily autonomy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Reproductive states invite social ownership of individual bodily experience.

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“Where Are You with Body image and self-perception?”

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