rite of passage

My first experience with sex thrilled me, stressed me and informed me. As I realized later, the dark, lonely period of pregnancy-paranoia and shame that I endured was practically a rite of passage of sex, almost as normal and universal among my friends as the physical pain we endured our first times.

But sex doesn't have to be tinged with regret. After my period of panic, I got a prescription for the Pill to ward off pregnancy and anxiety.

*This contributor lives in Oregon.

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