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It hurts! When sex is painful. Talking vaginismus with Jessie Stephens

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The Benefits of Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy

Is vaginismous in quote unquote curable for everybody or are some people's far more severe and they just can never recover? Some people, it's a lot more severe. And I think that it can be so for example, if you're someone who has chronic yeast infections, that's something that apparently can cause or perpetuate it because you are equating that area with pain. The psychological framework of pain is also like, if you are expecting it, you'll be primed for it. It takes women into their late 20s, 30s to associate the vagina with any kind of pleasure. Men don't have that as much but we will get there one day.

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