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 | October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Every time we're given an opportunity to publicly talk about illness or disease (two things most of us are raised to NEVER talk about) I feel trapped. One the one hand it's good to talk about these things. It can destigmatize the topic, make it less scary and make people feel less alone. On the other hand, most people who are talking are trying to get everyone else to think the way they think. And that leads to people being told not only how to think or talk about others, but how to think about themselves. And then you have someone who has breast cancer, which is a totally f-ing drag to live with and through (for those who do) calling themselves a survivor when they don't feel that way, making their friends feel positive when they feel like crap, buying pink colored gas cans and vibrators when they are pretty sure that buying stuff isn't going to bring their breasts back. A new documentary, Pink Ribbons, Inc. which is making the rounds of festivals, explores some of these issues. But even that film makes me think of the people for whom ribbons and positive thinking really help. The only answer I can think of is to leave people alone AND support them as best you can. It's harder than telling people what to do, but in the end I think it helps more. ~ Cory | |
Sexuality and Breast Cancer Diagnosis
The first time you feel something you think may be a lump, or the first time you're touching your body and become aware that you may find a lump one day, breast cancer diagnosis is having an affect on your sex life. Ignoring the anxiety we are encouraged to feel about our bodies can actually have a bigger impact on our sexual experience than addressing it head on.
| Sexuality and Treatment
Pain, scarring, rapid and significant changes to our bodies, fatigue. They make some people want to give up sex altogether. But others don't want to. The choice is yours, and you shouldn't feel like you can make only one as you move through whatever treatment you are getting.
| Sex and Terminal Cancer
Sex is part of life and it's part of death too.
| Reader Stories: Sex and Breast Cancer
What's worked and what hasn't for you as you balance sexual desires and sexual needs (your own and/or a partners) and living with breast cancer?
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