Why Can’t We Talk About Painful Sex?
One in five women experience intense physical pain from sexual intercourse, which often goes untreated for many reasons—not least of all due to the shame women are made to feel for seeking pleasure.
Carli Cutchin
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Carli Cutchin is a writer and critic living in Berkeley, CA. Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Electric Literature, and MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, among other places, and she recently completed a memoir manuscript, It Hurts When You Go, which weaves her chronic pelvic pain journey with meditations on sexual shame, chronic pain, and generational trauma in her Cuban family history.
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