Brianna Bell is a Canadian freelance journalist focusing on parenting, travel, personal finance, and high-control religion. When she's not writing she's reading, spending time with her three daughters, or out hiking. Brianna's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe & Mail, The Washington Post, CBC, BBC, The Guardian, and more.
“I want you to write down the name of every single person you’ve had unprotected sex with.” The nurse held out a pen. She was stern and no-nonsense. I didn’t even consider lying to her.
“I don’t care how many Plan B pills you pop,” the nurse said, seemingly reading my mind. “You’ll take those pills, or you’ll wind up in my clinic getting an abortion.” She didn’t even mention HIV or any other sexually transmitted infections, all of which I had been just tested for.I walked out of the clinic with my prescription for birth control pills, which I did fill and started taking. The nurse may have been tough on me, but she never once told me: “You have to stop having sex.
I wasn’t taught about safe sex, consent or how to heal from childhood sexual trauma. Nobody told me what to do when a youth pastor privately messaged me when I was in the sixth grade and told me that he struggled with “sexual sin” and masturbation. I wasn’t taught that having consensual sex as a teenager was a normal, fairly common occurrence.
It’s been over 30 years since the True Love Waits phenomenon was first started, and 20 years since I became a sexually active, shame-filled 15-year-old. Still, not much has changed.Would you help us provide essential information to our readers during this critical time?. We view our mission to provide free, fair news as critically important in this crucial moment, and we can't do it without you.
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