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As a woman in my early 20s, I was always trying to get over the last guy I dated. I was very loyal to my own heartbreak like that. When I started having drunken sexual encounters with men, it felt like I was getting back at guys who had dumped me. It felt like triumph. Absolutely my friends were doing this, too. The conversations we had the next morning were not, like, oh I’ve done this shameful thing. It was more like: Hell, yeah. I’m back. Those conversations were also laced with a romantic self-mythology.Oooh, I had a “one-night stand”. Look at how cool and evolved I am.

Read more of my interview at Soberistas, a site for sober women in England.