About Intimacy and Sex After Treatment

You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer

BBC

Health & Fitness, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Lauren is joined by relationship and sex psychotherapist Miranda Christophers to answer your questions on how to regain confidence and intimacy following cancer treatment.

Don't forget, you can get in touch by using the #YouMeBigC across all forms of social media - spread the word and share the positive support.

Email youmebigc@bbc.co.uk

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:12.4	I'm grieving my old vagina.
0:14.8	Except if that's a thing.
0:17.0	Absolutely.
0:19.0	Why are we that, what if it doesn't happen,
0:20.8	what if I can't reach you, or better?
0:22.3	Cancer and LGBT isn't really addressed.
0:24.6	And sadly, we all know too much
0:26.8	that cancer has the power to strick away,
0:30.3	like feelings of being sexy and sexuality.
0:33.9	Getting harder is, and then you throw a cancer side note
0:37.8	as I'm not as feeling on top of that.
0:39.3	Like, you just go, oh my god,
0:41.0	why am I just going to want to go out with me?
0:43.5	You're like, feel a bit like damage goods,
0:45.6	like, you know what I mean?
0:46.4	That's how I feel, and then, where?
0:48.2	What happened is we sort of thought, right, yeah,
0:51.0	we're going to go for it, and then it's hurt,
0:52.8	or whatever, and we've stopped,
0:53.8	and it just becomes a big sort of fad,
0:57.0	difficulting moment.
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