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A Traumatic First Time

“My knuckles were white as I gripped the hospital bed rail.”

What was supposed to be a first sexual experience turned into a medical emergency.

There was no foreplay, no comfort, and intense pain. “He asked: ‘

Why are you bleeding so much?’” She didn’t know. The blood wouldn’t stop.

The Emergency Room

After soaking through multiple pads, she called 111 and was sent to A&E.

“You have a tear on both your vaginal walls,” a nurse said.

Medical staff used gauze to stop the bleeding, and she stayed in the hospital for two nights.

Cultural Silence

She kept the event from her family.

“I didn’t want my parents knowing I’d had sex,” she said, knowing sex was taboo in her South Asian culture.

A Call for Better Education

“First time sex is definitely not meant to be inherently painful.” She now advocates for honest, pleasure-focused sex education to prevent others from suffering like she did.