My Experience My Experience with Endometriosis, PCOS, and Other Ovarian Problems When I was about 16, I went to the doctors with my friends to get the ‘morning after pill’ due to a condom breaking. (Just to note I was told by my sister when I was that age that you could only have that […]

My Experience Negative Views of Female Masturbation There is no doubt about it, female pleasure is a taboo.   Boys will mention having a ‘wank’ or other lovely terms for masturbation about 10 times a day! It’s a common joke and people generally aren’t bothered about the concept of male masturbation. On the other hand, […]

My Experience Losing my Virginity I was 14 when I got into the main and only long-term relationship I’ve ever had. I had ‘boyfriends’ before then but they all only lasted a week or two.   This relationship lasted through the first 2 years of University and we lived together for one year and I […]

My Experience Contracting an STI does not make you a bad person! When I was 18 my boyfriend of the time cheated on me and gave me Chlamydia.   We had learnt a lot about STI’s in school but because I was in what I believed to be a secure relationship, I didn’t even think […]

My Experience No One Has The Right To Say Or Do Anything That You Are Not Comfortable With! Growing up through school terms like ‘jail bait’ were thrown around with little concern as to what the term actually means.   It was accepted that girls would be whistled at and people would make comments as […]

My Experience I Had to Teach Myself the Majority of Sex Education From the ages of 11 to 16, I went to a catholic high school. The first sex education lesson I remember we had was in year seven, however, it was a very outdated video of a heterosexual sex, about the science of it […]

My Experience Is My Genitalia Normal? I remember being shown photos in what my secondary school called ‘sex education’ of genitalia and of those with STIs and going home in tears. I was so worried, not about the STI risk, but because all the photos showed the ‘standard’ vagina, the one that’s seen in porn and […]