Creative Nonfiction – July 2019

(Brent) #1

there’s a container from an
at-home STI testing kit that
allows users to swab them-
selves, pop their samples into
the mail, and receive results
on their smartphone. Next to
that, there’s a sizable box from
a high-end sex toy purveyor,
a box that contains one of
their new vibrators, a vibrator
that will eventually join all
of the others I’ve received for
review purposes, each in its
own satiny black drawstring
pouch, shoved onto a high
shelf in my bedroom closet.
And then there’s the collection
of personal lubricants gathered
together under the sink in
the upstairs bathroom. And
the clitoris pin I picked up at
Comic Con. And the two I
Ɔ Sex Ed magnets I brought
home from the National Sex
Ed Conference; she likes to
stick them to various metal
surfaces throughout the house,
alongside her Music Together
magnet.
When uterus plushies and
Vulva is not a dirty word stick-
ers are part of the scenery, it
makes sense that I would field
questions about condoms and
pubic hair alongside ques-
tions about butterflies and
birthmarks.

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