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'I had to adjust to life with a different penis' – the pain and positives of an elective circumcision
After a diagnosis of phimosis, I quickly had the operation. The experience was demeaning, comical and extremely painful – but I’m happy that I did itMy doctor was explaining, with some awkwardness, the procedure I was soon to undergo. “The skin around your … well ... when I was at... -
I’d been too scared to sing since childhood – could I find my voice?
Nearly forty years after being told she was making a racket, Paula Cocozza decided it was time to confront the sound of silenceMy singing voice is a part of my body that I have for years disowned. I was a child when I let it go. Of this moment I...