I just stopped having sex, period-not because I didn't want sex anymore, but because my anxiety surrounding the act put my sexual imagination on the fritz.

It left me traumatized, and for nearly five years afterward, I pretty much shut down sexually. In my early 20s, I was sexually assaulted at a party by a few guys who I thought were my friends. But, my sex life hasn't always been so… robust.

And that's just a typical encounter for me nowadays.