A woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer said she 'felt like a teenager again' after she ended her marriage and slept with over 100 men.
Molly Kochan was initially handed a breast cancer diagnosis in 2011 and underwent various treatments, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a double mastectomy in the hope of beating the debilitating disease for good.
However, in 2015, she was given the tragic news that the cancer had spread to her bones, brain and liver.
While some folks with terminal diagnoses take it upon themselves to travel the world or do charity work, Molly went on a very different journey, which was one of her own sexual liberation.
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And she wasn't about to keep her sexual conquests to herself, as the 45-year-old launched the hugely-popular six-part podcast, Dying for Sex and wrote a memoir titled Screw Cancer: Becoming Whole, before she passed away in 2019.
She had ended a loveless 15-year marriage to her husband and took to the dating apps, sleeping with no fewer than 183 men before her death, all of which was discussed on the podcast with her best friend Nikki Boyer.
“Sex makes me feel alive, and it’s a great distraction from being sick,” Kochan said before her death.
“I don’t think I would do any of this stuff without the cancer. Even though I’d maybe want to, I’d be a little more cautious about everything.”
Molly added: “I literally wanted to hump everyone and everything that I saw. I was horny all of the time. I felt like a teenager again.”
And while it was never likely to be your traditional love story because of the tragic ending that had already been marked out for her, she did manage to rediscover herself and her own sexuality.
She concluded: “I wish I could cap off the whirlwind hospital story with an amazing tale about a guy who swept me off my feet and made me blush, but my visitor never showed up.
“I realise I did get to fall in love. I am in love. With me.”
Molly also left a heartwarming message which was posted after her death on her blog, sharing some of the life lessons she learned during her final years on the planet living with a terminal illness.
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.
James Moorhouse