What’s Wrong with Leggings and Burkas?

Veronica Monet
11 min readAug 1, 2019

No one told me this could happen, so when it did, I felt utterly alone and embarrassed.

I was fourteen and had finally convinced my extremely controlling father to allow me to attend church with my mother. I know. It sounds ridiculous that any dad would have a problem with his daughter wanting to go to church with her mother. But you never met my dad. He was paranoid and suffocatingly…

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Veronica Monet

Author, IFS Informed Coach, Certified Sexologist, former Sex Worker. I write about s-e-x, shame, relationships, trauma, accountability, healing, and joy