My experience with tampons started rather late! Growing up, I knew there were such things as tampons but since my mum never used them, when I started my period at 10, I was introduced to disposable pads and that was that. Somehow, I got the understanding that inserting anything ‘up there’ was breaking your virginity …
Annulment – An Awful Word
When we first discovered that penetrative sex wasn’t working (the penis just couldn’t go in) I was really distressed. I couldn’t understand what was wrong with me. It didn’t help that our living circumstances at the time was very difficult, we were living with parents and didn’t have our own space (to make it worse, …
A Letter To Newly-Diagnosed Me
Hello me, I know life feels crazy right now, and you are totally overwhelmed with trying to understand what is wrong with your body. You feel like no one understands and the loneliness is overpowering. The sexual difficulty feels so difficult to talk about and you don’t even have the words to describe it. What’s …