Sex and the Hysterectomy

Giving my vagina the inscrutable Mona Lisa smile

Photo by Hamza El abaoui on Unsplash

I lost my mother when I was twelve to ovarian cancer and it ruined my teen years — I became irrational and wild and quite self-destructive.

My grandmother too died from ovarian cancer in her early 40s.

I was tested and I have, unfortunately, the BRCA1 gene mutation that puts me at…