I was afraid he would kill me – Gina
Gina had a history of acting out and questionable marriages. She is realizing she was groomed to be this way as a child, and it’s a trauma response to early assaults.
Gender is a non-issue for me – Donya
Donya started getting sexual attention very young because her body developed early. After having a child and settling into the closest thing to commitment outside of marriage, she received a breast cancer diagnosis.
Sex was a marital duty – Charlotte
Charlotte experienced sexual violation by a yoga guru. Today, after fleeing that community with her husband and having two kids, she is divorced and exploring what comes next.
Unhappily married – Tee
Tee is unhappily married, and unhappy with her sex life-like so many people. Also like too many, she experiences the lingering impacts of sexual assault.
I thought my vagina was broken – Stephanie
Stephanie shares how childhood shame led to an eating disorder, which had a profound affect on her ability to relate with her sexuality and her sexual partners.
I tried to pee standing up – Lachlan
Lachlan’s is the story of how a boy learned to be a girl, then learned to be invisible, then a lesbian, before learning he could just be who he was all along, except that it’s still – complicated.
I don’t equate sex and love – Gretchen
Gretchen had limited sexual experience prior to age 40 because she believed she was ugly and broken. Finally the pain of isolation led her to seek sexual healing with a tantric practitioner.
It’s a vagina, not a birth defect – Lynn
Lynn shares her trauma history, and then opens up on a deep and detailed level about hiring a sex worker to save her marriage.
Don’t marry someone you haven’t slept with – Heather
Heather grew up assuming she would marry a man and have children. So she did. But sex was never a good experience – until she had sex with a woman.
I’m so f’ing multi-orgasmic – Stacey
Stacey has had a rich sex life, and now finds happiness, satisfaction, and opportunity for personal growth in open relationships.
