After being raped at 15 by her then boyfriend, a young woman has shared her story of recovery in an effort to show other survivors that it’s possible to reclaim sexuality after violence.
The teenager shared her story anonymously in an online forum, describing her first time as a “life-changing” experience.
Since being raped she said sex had become “more unappealing than tomatoes and ice cream.”
It wasn’t until fell in love at 18, that she started consider sex could be apart of her future, despite her traumatic past.
It helped that her boyfriend, who she refers to as ‘T’ was incredibly supportive after she explained what she’d been through.
“We both thought that having sex for good reasons would be a great thing for me. After a couple of failures, and a sweetly frustrated T, we finally did last night!”
In an effort to make it special, the couple went to a public beach at night and spread out a big towel.
“It only lasted about 8 minutes, but I am so so happy that I did. Sex is good. To any other rape victims out there, I encourage you to try sex out at some point in your life. I love T very much and that made a world of a difference.”
