Women’s Internal Affairs

March 18, 2008

Julia Suryakusuma

  • The writer is the author of Sex, Power and Nation. She can be reached at jsuryakusuma@gmail.com

    WHEN I was 15, my mother put me on the pill. Why? Because I was sexually promiscuous and she wanted to stop me getting pregnant? No, it was because I had been menstruating for a whole month for some unknown reason. So Mum took me to a gynecologist, who prescribed contraceptive pills to regulate my period, I took the pills and, sure

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