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I Haven’t Wanted Sex Since Kavanaugh Was Appointed

16 min readSep 24, 2019

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A photo of a shadow of a hand against a peach wall.
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I’d have to wait until freshman year at college, after a seminar called “Alcohol, College Life, and You,” to realize that I had been raped.

Kavanaugh’s appointment — or rather, the denial of Blasey Ford’s testimony that he assaulted her — took a hammer to my brain’s protective fault line.

For the first time, I realized that my narrative about sex was my narrative, not the only narrative. That my husband’s brain plays an entirely different cassette tape.

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Human Parts
Human Parts
Cyndy Etler | Teen Coach | Author
Cyndy Etler | Teen Coach | Author

Written by Cyndy Etler | Teen Coach | Author

Locked up & homeless as a teen. Now teaching resiliency & hope with my YA memoirs & teen coaching. Seen on CNN, HuffPost, NPR, CBS, ABC. www.cyndyetler.com

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