A woman who split up with her husband and went on to sleep with around 200 men after being told that her cancer was terminal once spoke about her husband's reaction.
Molly Kochan felt a lump in her breast in 2005 but was told she was 'too young' to have cancer.
Six years later she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent treatment.
In 2015, she was given the devastating diagnosis that her cancer had spread and was terminal, so she decided to make some changes to her life and decided she'd try and sleep with as many men as she could in the time she had left.
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Leaving her husband, she had a series of romantic romps which have ended up being made into FX series Dying For Sex, starring Michelle Williams as as Molly and Jenny Slate as her friend Nikki Boyer who she told her stories to.
Molly explained that her hormone medication, which typically lowers libido, ended up boosting her sex drive to the point that she 'wanted to hump everything and everyone.'
She explained to Boyer on their podcast Dying for Sex that she was 'was horny all of the time', but her sex life with her husband was pretty nonexistent by this point.
Molly explained: "For a long time with sex - and this is why I had a problem in my marriage - I was really, really, really good at figuring out what other people liked and then I could simulate that like an actor for them.
"But I never really knew what I liked."
With her marriage not satisfying her sexual needs, Molly saying 'I don’t blame him' of the lack of bedroom action with her husband, she started getting on the internet and talking with men online.
Her husband's reaction after she told him this was to say 'good for you', and she ended up dedicating her remaining years to 'seeking joy', including an encounter with a man who asked her to kick him in the balls, which she described as 'like an amusement park built for me with one ride, and that was the ride, and there was no line, so I’m going to do it again and again'.
Molly died in March 2019, having recorded a six part podcast with Boyer that was released posthumously and listened to over five million times as well as penned a memoir called Screw Cancer: Becoming Whole.
Nikki had explained that for her friend, 'sex felt like the antithesis to death' and was 'a great distraction from being sick'.
If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence, contact Macmillan’s Cancer Support Line on 0808 808 00 00, 8am–8pm seven days a week.
Topics: Cancer, Health, Sex and Relationships, TV and Film, Books
Joe Harker