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

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The Shame of a Vaginismus

Jesse McCartney has a vaginismus, which is an involuntary clenching of the muscles in the vagina. It can affect up to one in three women and it's not really talked about because there's so much shame and stigma attached to it. "I think every woman at some stage harbors a fear that there's something wrong with her vagina," she says.

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