What is Female Genital Mutilation and how does it affect sexual empowerment? Sexual empowerment is a basic human right that all women should enjoy. It is an important factor in general well-being, confidence, and self-worth. However, feeling sexually empowered can be difficult for victims of female genital mutilation (FGM). Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting, is the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons (this simply means that …
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In September 2020, I attended a Sexual Attitudes Reassessment (SAR) course hosted by Sex Coach University, the institution through which I was completing my sex coaching qualification. As a baby in the industry, I was overwhelmed …
Written and Photographed By Billy Hani I just had my first abortion a month ago and I feel grief for losing my child while simultaneously feeling guilty for ‘murdering’ them. Hi, my name is Chepchumba* and …
If you’ve heard of polycystic-ovarian syndrome (PCOS), you’ve probably heard the statistic that goes with it: “1 in 10 women of child-bearing age are affected with PCOS.” It’s the first result that comes up in Google …
“What brings you in today?” “It’s been five years since my last pap smear,” I explained with a tinkling laugh. “I figured it was time.” “The good news is that guidelines are now to have them …
Last year I came to the realization that I wasn’t feeling my sex partners’ touch anymore. It was like I wasn’t present. I guess it was a way for my body to protect itself because although …
Here I am once again, crying about my pussy. This has been happening a lot lately. Since things ended with that man. Although I can’t be sure things ended because of my dysfunctional vagina, I can’t …
“I don’t need the pill. I only had sex once” “What do you mean you don’t need the pill? You only need to have sex once to fall pregnant”. And that is how I …
My vagina needed a context of other vaginas – a community, a culture of vaginas. There’s so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them – like the Bermunda Triangle…. Paraphrased from the Vagina monologues I …
Whether you live in Accra, Ghana or Akron, Ohio in the US, as a woman of African descent you know what it means to have your sexual health and pleasure controlled by someone else. You could …