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RUIN ME, PLEASE

Part 1: I Want Men on Their Knees

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Alyssa Allegretti
May 19, 2024
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I have been re-reading the Bridgerton books, this time for science as much as for drugs as much as for pleasure. I've always been drawn to the virgin and the rake trope. It makes sense, given my upbringing and my experience of vaginismus. I know we all know virginity is a social construct (right? right??? do we all know that yet???? no?) but guess what?…

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