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“I was 14 years old when I started to take medicine where I was forbidden to get pregnant because there would be horrible birth defects. So in order to get that medicine, I needed to be on birth control. My doctor asked me if I was a virgin, which I confirmed. He called in a nurse and told me he needed to do a quick exam to confirm this before prescribing birth control. He said, ‘This might hurt, so the nurse will hold your hand,’ and then he broke my hymen, which hurt like hell.”
“I remember crying and not understanding what happened. He confirmed that I was indeed a virgin and prescribed birth control. He pat me on my back as I left and called me a good girl. I still hate him with the burning intensity of a thousand desert suns.
Several years later, I learned that he did not have to do that in order to prescribe birth control. And since I was a minor, he needed my parents’ permission — my parents were horrified when I told them years later.”
—u/Thelimpdevildk
