Fogel

Porn star Alina Angel secretly dated a man for 11 years in Iraq, where sex outside marriage was forbidden. She couldn't even tell her closest friends about him, and only realized how unhealthy the relationship was after moving to America. She spent 26 years in Iraq, where openly discussing sex was taboo. Her first boyfriend introduced her to sex, but she knew so little about her body that she had to learn from an anatomy book in her doctor's father's library. “So I went to my boyfriend. I was like, oh, you're doing it wrong.” Her second relationship lasted 11 years. Nobody knew about it, and she had no one to turn to when things went wrong. “I didn't know it's unhealthy until now. Until I arrived to America.” After moving to the US, she attended her first sex party and was shocked by how respectful everyone was. Even strangers asked permission before touching her. Back in Iraq, she says agreeing to a date with her boyfriend was treated like agreeing to everything. “I'm not allowed to say no. Like seriously.” She spent 11 years hiding a relationship, only to discover that strangers at a sex party could respect boundaries she hadn't always felt able to set with her own boyfriend. Would you stay in a relationship for 11 years if nobody could know about it?