The lasting impact of trauma on sexuality
VALENTINO VECCHIETTI on how trauma can affect our relationship with our body
“My body doesn’t yet know how to disentangle sex from trauma”
VALENTINO VECCHIETTI is a writer, academic, intersex human rights campaigner and a lesbian. They founded Intersex Equality Rights UK.
@ValentinoInter
As a person who has experienced trauma, it means a lot to me to have a platform to write about sex. But writing about this is really hard.
For me, trying to develop some kind of relationship with my body, so that I can find ways to experience pleasure, is complicated and difficult.