When sex becomes impossible due to burning pain in and around the vulva

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	Society & Culture[1] Society & Culture[1]Diseases [2]Gender and society [3]Sex [4]Norway [5]Forskning.no [6] Women with vestibulodynia feel that they?re missing out on the wonderful sex that the media boasts of. And they?re ashamed of being poor sexual partners. “I’ve always had pain during sex, ever since the first time,” says a 23 year-old woman. “It destroys your sex life in a way. He thinks ?All I’ve done is to inflict pain on her?. So it’s not something you want to tell your boyfriend.” When the researchers interviewed women about their experiences with vestibulodynia – burning sensations at the entry to the vagina caused by touching or penetration – one issue was particularly emphasised. “Being a sex partner. That’s what they talked about. They talked about this on their own initiative, and they had a lot on their hearts,” says Karen Synne Groven, researcher at the University of Oslo and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. “They probably don’t have many others to talk to about these issues.” Groven and her colleague Gro Killi Haugstad from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences are two of the researchers behind a study of eight women between the age of 23 and 32 who are all being treated for vestibulodynia. It is one of few qualitative studies which explores how women themselves experience their own disease.
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