I came from a very conservative culture where I was taught never to think of sex as anything but a means to procreation.

My husband and I were married very young, and it was almost an arranged marriage; we knew each other, but we didn’t have much of a say in the matter. We were both virgins, and for many years we did nothing but the basics. I did try to blow him once, having read about the act in a women’s magazine, but he didn’t think it was proper behavior. Needless to say, he never went down on me and I had never had an orgasm. I bought a vibrator but was too afraid to use it.

As I got older and experienced a bit of the world, I’d decided I wanted more out of my sex life. My husband was obstinate, so to his shock and that of my family, I divorced him. I got a job and moved to the city.... Read More