Pain can sometimes be an unfortunate part of having reproductive organs, like a uterus, vulva or testes, part of sex, part of sexual development, a by-product of trauma, or part of our bodies as a whole. Here’s a range of information and help for when you or someone else is hurting.
Pain
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Advice
- Heather Corinna
Jako: let’s work backwards with your questions. For starters, her itchiness may have been irritation from either the condom OR the spermicide. Spermicides are essentially dish soap, and genital tissue is delicate, so you can imagine that for a lot of people, it doesn’t feel so good. Since irritation…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
There are a few likely possibilites for this. One might be plain old vasocongestion – when a person becomes sexually aroused, the whole pelvic area fills with blood, which is how erection happens in penis, and vulval engorgement – swelling of the clitoris and vulva – happens in those body parts…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
Most topical antibiotics state on the label that they aren’t to be used on mucous membranes, alas. But you can certainly check the label on any topical antibiotics you have around the house to see. So, with a genital injury – I’m assuming you mean you have an injury around your vaginal opening? –…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
First things first: when something hurts, that really is your body’s way of telling you that IT wants whatever it is to STOP. So, next time? If it hurts? Press pause. Manual sex really shouldn’t hurt – nor should it just be something one gets used to: sex should feel GOOD – and if it did hurt a…
Article
- Heather Corinna
Am I blue? Find out what “blue balls” are really all about: the facts may surprise you.
Article
- Heather Corinna
Some people experience great pain or discomfort with vaginal sex or other kinds of vaginal entry that’s not about hymens, lack of arousal or lubrication, or rough partners, but about a health condition known as vaginismus.
