Welcome to the Weekly Wench

Recently, I read an article about how caring for children can trigger the PTSD often associated with surviving sexual assault. As one scholar puts it, women "fake motherhood" like we fake orgasms. Women often accuse other women of trapping a man with sex -- even when the "trapper" is "stuck" raising a child without the benefit of the "trappee's" support. But beyond these, we live in a society that associates "women" with sex and "mothers" with being "asexual." So many moms have voiced a concern and need for a safe space to explore discussions around maternal sexuality. Black mothers in particular have expressed a desperate need to close the gap between the two. The Weekly Wench is created for this reason.