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Painful Sex

Ten years of it is just in your head — and what finally helped

I was 22 the first time I tried to have sex and could not. For three years, I was told to relax and given pamphlets about anxiety. Then I fo

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The Unsexy Truth: Navigating Intimacy, Chronic Pain, and the Fear of Being “Too Much”

I thought my silence in bed was protecting the people I loved. It was actually the loneliest thing I’ve ever done. Before I met my partner,

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Anonymous5 min

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