Sex Can Be Terrifying
Pregnancies, STDs, and Pain, Oh My!
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5 min readMar 7, 2023
So much of my adult life I have spent worried about sex. I was married and early-on had a mid-term miscarriage that rocked my entire world. For the following five years, I held my breath each month, waiting for my period, praying to literally any god that would hear me, that I was not pregnant. I never wanted to do that again.