ABSTRACT
The author says that her first introduction to sex education came from her mother when she was five. Her mother was pregnant with her younger sister which led me down the “where do babies come from” path. The next introduction to the concept of sex came just after her mother’s talk, in her school with other students. The author talks about exploring masturbation in early teens, the prioritization of and misinformation about what exactly an orgasm was, the rabbit vibrator she never know how to use, and the eventual vestibulodynia, a form of vulvodynia, and finally brealising she was genderqueer. She does not wish her difficulties on anyone else and doe not think struggling is essential to a narrative on discovering one’s gender and sexuality. Without her experiences she would not be the queer nonbinary storyteller with a Bachelor’s Degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality that she is today.
