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There was this children’s movie once where one of the characters is a dog who hates being in dog shows because he hates when the judges touch his balls. His arc is about learning to dissociate and not be mentally “there” so he’s okay with having his balls touched. The general public reaction to this movie was shock and outrage. People were appalled that this movie was teaching children to ignore when their bodily autonomy was being violated.

So bodily autonomy is a “real” thing that the average person can be made to understand. It’s just that a lot of people have a very specific idea of what is and isn’t bodily autonomy, and they don’t take you seriously if your bodily autonomy needs are different from theirs. Those people are assholes.