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"You touch me the way I want to be touched"

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Annette Müller
Sep 08, 2024
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There was a moment in the session where I was battling these two inner voices, one that was internally screaming with elation as my little girl started making her way back into me, through the years of shame and terror and total confusion over her own body and sexuality, the other part was like… did I just pay for sex?

What the f am I doing here?

My relationship to my body and sex and pleasure, like many of us, has been complex, to say the least. My childhood is filled with blurs and blanks and a very distant relationship to my body. My first orgasm was when I was 21 years old with an older boyfriend who realised I had no idea what I was doing and was man enough to tell me that the “fake” orgasms I was having were no longer necessary and that he would show me how to actually get there. 

It was both humiliating and enlightening. 

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