Melissa Petro
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Melissa Petro Articles
Sometimes the fights I pick with my fiancé are really fights with myself.
Read...Want to work responsibly on the issue of sex trafficking? Here’s some of what you should know.
Read...After gaining as much as forty pounds and pushing a cantaloupe out my vagina, I wondered: will my body ever be the same?
Read...I do have one advantage when it comes to meeting people online: I really like dating. I like getting dressed up and going out. I even kind of dig meeting someone new. I know these are aspects of dating other people dread, but I’ve always enjoyed these things. Perhaps this is one explanation for (or else a result of) my sex work past, I dunno. I know that, in the beginning, I thought of dating as an adventure. I didn’t take it too seriously.
Read...No exaggeration, when I close my eyes— even for a second— I see white dresses.
Read...How do you break up with a best friend?
Read...A week or so ago I started shopping for a wedding dress, and guess what? Shopping for a wedding dress sucks!
Read...A lot has been written about what not to say to a pregnant person. Being on the opposite side of that, I’ve learned pregnant people make mistakes, too.
Read...It's pretty well understood in 12 step programs that "who you see here and what you say here, stays here."
Read...“If you believe in the decriminalisation of sex work,” Ian Dunt rightfully points out, “you will instantly come under a sustained and highly emotive attack on your morality and your identity.” In this vein, when a man comes out in favor of sex worker’s rights, he becomes “a betrayer of women, a gender Judas encouraging violence against them.”
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