I want there to be room for response : An Interview with Kai Cheng Thom – PRISM international prismmagazine.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from prismmagazine.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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ONIKA HENRY
“I did everything ‘right:’ no premarital sex, no masturbation, no partying. I was a good girl. I was waiting until marriage, but that never happened and now I find myself in my mid-forties, wanting to have a child through IVF and cannot do that because my vagina shuts down and the doctors cannot examine it.
“When my husband and I try to have sex it s painful.
“In certain positions I suddenly feel anxiety and my chest tightens and my breathing gets fast.
Sometimes I just zone out and pray for it to be over. Sometimes I have to beg my partner to stop. I don’t understand why this is happening and why I can’t stop it. I am attracted to my partner. I want to have sex. What is wrong with me?”