Less than a year before, she received not only the diagnosis of endometriosis, but also a diagnosis of pelvic floor dysfunction, vulvodynia, vaginismus, and vulvar vestibulitis. And beyond that? She let the whole world know that she wasn’t having any sex, as sex was excruciatingly painful. In April 2014, Deputy Editorial Director at BuzzFeed Lara Parker opened up to the world in an article on the website: she suffers from endometriosis. It was my way of taking this pain and saying, "Whatever. I wanted the world to know that all of this pain I had been feeling…that it was related to my vagina. I wasn’t ready to be completely honest about my vagina yet, and the world wasn’t ready for that either. With unflinching honesty, Lara Parker, the Deputy Director for BuzzFeed, shares her day-to-day challenges of living, working, and loving with chronic pain caused by endometriosis in this raw, darkly humorous, and hopeful memoir.
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