Women’s Internal Affairs
March 18, 2008
Julia Suryakusuma
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