After cancer, I want to feel sexy and experience intimacy again

In the early days of diagnosis, surviving beyond my thirties was the only thing that mattered. Now I’m no longer happy to settle for being glad to be alive, I want more

Sex after cancer treatment: "take sex, in whatever definition you have of it, off the table"

The last thing you think of when you are diagnosed with cancer is how it will affect your sex life. Yet at the other end of successful treatment for Stage 3 breast cancer, I wonder how I ever thought it would be unharmed.

In the early days of diagnosis, surviving beyond my thirties was the only thing that mattered. Luckily my treatment worked and my body became my own again. Now, in this phase of recovery, I’m no longer happy to settle for being glad to be alive, I want more. I deserve to feel sexual and joyous within my body as I once did but it isn’t straightforward.