An ‘Odyssey’ of discovering sex and the self

Imagine a time before you could find the answers to “Does sex hurt?” or “Am I gay?” on Google — when you were so unsure about what sex was that you worried you might’ve done it accidentally.

That’s the 1980s rural Illinois setting of the first scenes of “The Vagina Odyssey,” which is written and performed by women’s sexuality coach Sarah J. Kennedy.

Kennedy’s journey of self-discovery (and sexual discovery) takes her from Catholic school taught by nuns to a women’s studies minor to chakras, from men to women and back to men again, from Riot Grrrl to the Dyke March to the Lexington Club, from wincing through sex to tolerating it to having a full-on conversation with her genitalia, which she names Queen V.