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"textContent": "‘Pleasure’ author Emma-Louise Boynton hired a sex therapist, who helped her to shed her ingrained hang-ups around masturbation – a process that changed her life. “I never established a sexual relationship with myself outside of the context of sex with – and for – someone else,” she writes. “If sex was performance, what use was there in putting on a show without an audience?”",
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