what makes me the most mad about how hard it is for so many uterus-having humans to get a hysterectomy is that the issues that require surgery often seriously affect our sex lives. orgasm and sex of any kind did not exist in my life last year because of severe pain
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the act of orgasm was actually physically painful for me after i had to go off of birth control. i couldn’t climax without it feeling like someone was stabbing me in the abdomen (i’m sure the tumors and cysts didn’t help here)
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so my relationship was fundamentally altered by a change in the ability to be intimate. when you can’t even get turned on without pain that leaves you doubled over, you start to avoid a lot of unspoken physical acts that connect you to your significant other
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there’s this pavlovian response when feeling good doesn’t actually feel so good. you start to avoid it (because it hurts and because you don’t want to create brain pathways the associate sex with ow any more than what’s already happening)
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and we already KNOW that when the sex lives of humans with penises were affected the biology, we created a helluva drug to fix it and gave them basically easy access (or what constitutes “easy” in this bullshit medical industrial complex, anyways)
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Reminds me of how, when I first started antidepressants and told my GP that I couldn’t orgasm all of a sudden (happily temporary), she looked up the side-effects on her system and they only mentioned erectile dysfunction; nothing about sexual consequences otherwise.
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