Why Women Experience Pain During Sex

Women often have painful sex on their first sexual experience or if they have been on a sexual sabbatical.
But sex for the first time should be memorable and of course pleasurable so why do women experience painful intercourse.

Medically, painful intercourse is known as dyspareunia and according to NCBI, ‘The overall prevalence of dyspareunia was 12.6 per cent, with a higher prevalence in the central region, among newly married and younger women, among Muslims, rural residents, and among non users or traditional contraceptive method users.

Dyspareunia was significantly more common among respondents who had urinary sensory symptoms when compared with their counterparts.’

Three Types of Dyspareunia:

1) Entry pain

2) Deep Pain

3) Emotional factors

Entry pain,

• Dyspareunia: Lack of lubrication - Too much friction is a cause of painful intercourse. Lack of lubrication intensifies the pain during intercourse. Engage in longer foreplay to increase lubrication and reduce friction in the vagina.

• Entry pain, Dyspareunia: Injury - Irritation due to injury, accident or congenital abnormality is another reason for dyspareunia.

• Entry pain, Dyspareunia: Inflammation - Inflammation or infection of the genitals can increase your chances of painful intercourse. Problems like urinary tract infection and genital skin problems can also cause dyspareunia.

• Entry pain, Dyspareunia: Vaginismus - This condition is characterised as involuntary muscle spasms of the vagina that makes sex a painful experience.

Deep pain

•  Dyspareunia: Ailments - There are several health problems that affect the vagina and uterus. Fibroids, haemorrhoids, ovarian cyst and endometriosis are some of the factors that can cause dyspareunia.
• Dyspareunia: Surgeries - Surgeries at the pelvic area and chemotherapy are some of the causes of Dyspareunia. Surgeries and chemo make the skin tender, which can result in painful sex.

Emotional factors

   

•  Dyspareunia: Psychology - Depression, anxiety and stress are some of the factors that cause painful intercourse. Your pelvic muscles tighten when you are stressed making it difficult for smooth and painless penetration.