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When medical professionals dismiss your sexual pain

I have never been able to insert tampons or have penetrative sex without extreme pain and doctors keep telling me to just relax.

Mira
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical conditions affecting sexuality become compounded by medical invalidation that treats pain as psychological rather than physiological.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sexual health and wellbeing?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.