Sexual Dysfunction & Me
Picture yourself in your most intimate moments. Think about the way that your partner's body feels against yours. Feel the electricity running through your body. Now imagine having a hot curling iron shoved up you. That's what sex feels like for me. When I started being sexually active in high school, I realized that something wasn't right. I knew that a lot of women (and other people with vaginas) experience pain when having sex for the first time, but I wasn't prepared for the kind of pain I would soon become very familiar with. Whenever something enters my vagina, I am met with a sharp and intense burning feeling that lasts even after the object is removed. For a long time I suffered in silence, googling possible reasons for what I was experiencing. For a while I thought it was a result of the medication I was taking, but after a few chats with my school's sexologist, I knew that wasn't it. I would cry at night wondering what the hell was wrong with me. I