FROM BAD SEX TO GOOD SEX:

Karen Connelly
Nov 4 · 10 min read

A BRIEF PERSONAL HISTORY

Someone in Leviticus is always being stoned to death or cast out into the desert for committing some perversion or engaging in fornication. That’s why I read Leviticus: it was kink-before-kink . . .

My impatience with bad sex began years before I even understood what sex actually was. It was a chilly morning in church. I was ten. I sat on my hard seat…

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Karen Connelly

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Author of 12 books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, Karen is “one of Canada’s smartest, most intrepid writers.” Also an educator & therapist.

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