cran

During my senior year of high school, I decided that I was ready to have penis-in-vagina sex for the first time. Since I wasn’t on birth control, my then-boyfriend and I opted to spring for spermicidal condoms. Neither of us wanted a baby, so why wouldn’t we want some extra sperm-killing power on deck? It seemed like a no-brainer.

But a few days after we did the deed, shit got real. First came the urgent need to pee constantly, sometimes only a few minutes after I had last left the bathroom, only a few measly drops emerging most of the time. Then came the pain, hot and burning and sharp enough to make my eyes water, like I was pissing acid and/or microscopic razor blades.