A year ago, at the ripe age of 18, I became a stripper. When I walked into the club, I was hired on the spot. “No prostitution,” my boss said as she handed me my schedule. Little did she know there was no chance of that happening. I was a virgin who literally couldn’t have sex.

I’ve never engaged in sexual intercourse, oral, anal, fingering; you name it and I probably haven’t done it. The main reason? I was born with a rare medical condition called vaginismus, which causes muscles along the vaginal wall to contract when an attempt at penetration is made, basically making penetration extremely painful or simply impossible. Try poking your eyeball with your finger and you’ll see (or rather not see) that your eyelid closes to protect your eye. Now replace the eyeball with a vagina and the finger with anything that can penetrate a vagina and you’ll get an idea of what it’s like.

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