U.S. News & World Report, January 10, 2018

Some women lie to their health care providers about their number of sexual partners because they're tired of being met with judgment. A 26-year-old therapist in California felt so ashamed after a nurse expressed alarm over her number of sexual partners, she told me she never wanted to go to the clinic again.

No one ever has told me, however, that after a regretted consensual sexual encounter, she lied and accused her partner of sexual assault. Instead, women who regret an act of consensual sex are quick to blame only themselves.

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