The Missing Pieces of Me(at)

I was raised to believe ‘sinful’ sex would fragment me

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As a young girl, my father told me that, were I to have sex with multiple people I would cleave myself up into separate pieces. For each person I slept with, I would give a part of myself away. As a result, I’d become fragmented; reduced to a lesser version of me.