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How mindful sex helped me heal from sexual trauma

This is the third story in a four-part series on sex hacks for the digital age. TW: It includes descriptions of sexual trauma.

I lie in bed, alone in a darkened room, naked. My glowing technicolor oil diffuser emits lavender scents and trickling sounds of ambient music. I take two long puffs off my vaporizer, hoping weed might make the inexplicable panic at the back of my throat go away.

It doesn’t.

Before my months-long journey into mindful sex, masturbation served as a sleep aid or destresser, done within a 10-minute trip to PornHub. You might say I wasn’t a very active participant in my self-love. Read more...

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