Anna

It's interesting because I feel like I'm hearing you speak as a cultural critic, which you are, you know, looking back on this era. But when you were in the era at the moment. It felt like I'm hearing you say sex was everywhere and you wanted to be a part of it. Does that feel fair to say?

It's interesting because I feel like I'm hearing you speak as a cultural critic, which you are, you know, looking back on this era. But when you were in the era at the moment. It felt like I'm hearing you say sex was everywhere and you wanted to be a part of it. Does that feel fair to say?

Like in the moment when you didn't have the zoom out perspective of now, it was like sex is everywhere and I want to jump in.

Like in the moment when you didn't have the zoom out perspective of now, it was like sex is everywhere and I want to jump in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I know from your article that you met your husband in your 20s and you two were together for 21 years. How did your relationship to sex evolve once you got married?

I know from your article that you met your husband in your 20s and you two were together for 21 years. How did your relationship to sex evolve once you got married?

Did you ever think that things might change for you? Like, did you fantasize about having a healthy body again?

Did you ever think that things might change for you? Like, did you fantasize about having a healthy body again?

Did you picture what that life on the other side would look like? And particularly like, because this is a conversation ultimately about your sex life, did you picture what your sex would look like on the other side? Like what was the best case scenario?

Did you picture what that life on the other side would look like? And particularly like, because this is a conversation ultimately about your sex life, did you picture what your sex would look like on the other side? Like what was the best case scenario?

So you told our team that over a period of many years dealing with this illness, you had spinal surgery 12 times. Is that correct? And it didn't work? But right after you got divorced, this frankly miraculous, that is not too strong a word, it is miraculous thing happened, where you tried the surgery one more time and it did work. Were you...

So you told our team that over a period of many years dealing with this illness, you had spinal surgery 12 times. Is that correct? And it didn't work? But right after you got divorced, this frankly miraculous, that is not too strong a word, it is miraculous thing happened, where you tried the surgery one more time and it did work. Were you...

What was that like for you, having dealt with this for over a decade?

What was that like for you, having dealt with this for over a decade?

Can you describe one of the first times you had sex after your marriage? What was that like for you?

Can you describe one of the first times you had sex after your marriage? What was that like for you?

Wow. In these first, you know, sort of sexual encounters after divorce, what surprised you about yourself?

Wow. In these first, you know, sort of sexual encounters after divorce, what surprised you about yourself?