MaryClare StFrancis
1 min readApr 26, 2023

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There’s a lot people need to to know like we aren’t just lesbian because we’ve never had good sex. It can actually be because we don’t need dick. It might be a marvelous dick. You might love it as much as my thirteen-year-old loves his. It doesn’t mean we just need to have good sex with a guy.

I had a guy rape me after he found out I was lesbian. In his mind a woman is broken if she’s a lesbian and she’s only a lesbian if she’s not had good sex. Where do these guys come from?


Oh, and our childhood trauma doesn’t “turn us into to lesbians.” Neither do TV shows, books, or having a queer friend. It’s not a contagious disease. We didn’t just start the free trial and forget to cancel.

Nothing turned us into lesbians. We’ve always been lesbians.

You’re doing it right, Jason. Your kids, like mine, won’t have to put up with the same shit we did.

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MaryClare StFrancis
MaryClare StFrancis

Written by MaryClare StFrancis

I write memoir, nonfiction essays, and poetry

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