The Star (Jamaica)

My vagina is jumping

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Dear Pastor, I am 16 years old and I am living with my godmother. My parents left me with her because they broke up, after which my mother went abroad to see how she could make a living.

Recently. my father called me and told me that he is not on the island either, but he says that everything is going to be all right for the new year.

My godmother doesn’t give me a break. She watches me a lot. She keeps telling me that my mother got pregnant with me when she was 16, so she does not want that to happen to me.

This woman doesn’t want me to go anywhere, not even to night service. I am not a bad girl.

Pastor, my school friends told me how to deal with her so that she would not know whether or not I am having sex. I do like a boy, and he respects me.

He has never asked me to have sex, though I know he wants it sometimes. Do you know how I know? He is 18 and I keep watching him, and if he doesn’t have his bag in front of him, he pushes his hands in his pocket and tries to hold his penis down. My godmother has a man and he is always staring at me. I hate him so much. I don’t trust him. When he comes to see my godmother, I always find things to do outside.

I asked my father if I am old enough to have a boyfriend and he said that I should wait until I am 17 and a half years old.

I told my boyfriend what my father said, and my boyfriend said that he will wait.

I love my father more than my mother. They broke up because my mother is very miserable.

She was always accusing him of keeping women with her. My father told me that it was only one Indian woman that he got mixed up with, and he told my mother about her. Every day she harassed him about her.

He had $1 million in the bank and my mother withdrew every cent and went away.

I will be 17 in June and I am doing well in school. Why does a girl’s vagina jump? Sometimes that happens to me.

F.M.

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