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5 Reasons for Women's Sexual Pain, If It's Not Vulvodynia or Menopause

An estimated 6-14% of women suffer from sexual pain and many more postmenopausal women do. It may be menopause-related or it may bevulvodynia, but there are many other potential causes, from dermatological diseases to bladder conditions. Deep (abdominal) pain with penetration could be due to endometriosis, fibroids, or previous pelvic surgery.

Here are a few other causes you and your doctor may want to consider:

1. The Pill
Hormonal birth control can cause the same kind of sexual pain due to lack of lubrication and vaginal atrophy that is normally seen in postmenopausal women, says Andrew Goldstein, MD, an associate professor at George Washington University and a specialist in vulvar pain. He says he's been seeing "a ton of it" in the newer birth-control-pill formulations that have very low estrogen and a type of progestin that can lower testosterone. "I'm seeing 25-year-old women who have low desire and need lubricants, which is ridiculous!" he says.

That doesn't mean the pills are bad—"for a large percentage of women, they're great," Dr. Goldstein says. But it does mean that women should be aware that there may be sexual side effects to hormonal birth control methods, which they can discuss with their doctor.

2. Cancer treatment
"For women who have cervical or vaginal cancer and radiation, the whole vagina can become a rock-hard scar," says Irwin Goldstein, MD (no relation to Andrew), director of San Diego Sexual Medicine and the editor in chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Also, "tamoxifen stops estrogen from working," Dr. Goldstein adds, so breast cancer patients can have issues with vaginal dryness and atrophy, same as postmenopausal women and some birth control pill users. It's a tough situation, because systemic hormone replacement is not an option, as it may encourage the cancer. Some doctors, meanwhile, say local estrogen is relatively safe. Other treatments may include physical therapy and sex therapy.

3. Skin problems
Problems with the skin in the genital area may be another reason for sexual pain. Common issues include childbirth lacerations or episiotomy scars, as well as dermatological diseases such as lichen sclerosus, or sexually transmitted infections such as herpes. One of Dr. Irwin Goldstein's patients came in with pain that ended up being traceable to a simple ingrown hair: "One of the pubic hairs grew into the skin and she had an infection of the clitoris," he says.

Frigidity Lack of Sexuality in Women

Author: adrianna smith

Frigidity is the lack of wish sexual women. Frigidity should be differentiated from anorgasmia Where is the lack of orgasm female, but in which there is sexual desire.

Frigidity is termed as female sexual dysfunction, or change in sexual function, especially sexual desire, and this dysfunction is due mostly to locks or partial response psycho-physiological.

The absolute majority of cases, the lack of interest sexual activity are linked to psychological factors or social, is one of the most frequent determinants of marital boredom. Also the education that is received, the lack of dialogue between partners, sexual practices and even rewarding little resistance to innovate eventually undermine the relationship and facilitate the detachment. The very fact of aging and the difficulties of everyday life may also interfere with sexual satisfaction.

The female sexual response, according to the expert, is characterized by the triad, desire, arousal and orgasm, and this lock can be inserted into any of these stages. When does the desire phase, we are dealing with a disorder that we call the sexual appetite, which may be known as disorders of sexual drive or libido disorders. It seems this change at this stage, the most important, because it is the beginning of all the female sexual response. Even when the blockage occurs in the excitement phase, the disorder is represented by the change in vaginal lubrication. If the lock is in the orgasmic phase, considered as female anorgasmia.

A frigidity is a condition in which there is a decrease or absence of vaginal lubrication in response to the stimulus. The term frigidity is also used to define the decrease in the interest of women in sexual activities. The loss of sexual interest in women happens more often when they approach menopause.

Features of frigidity
A frigidity can be divided into subtypes according to their characteristics:
* For life or acquired.
Generalized * (happens in all situations) or situational (happens in certain circumstances).
* Due to psychological factors or combined factors.

One should not confuse frigidity with Dyspareunia-which is manifested by a genital pain felt by women during sex which first raises an organic cause. Or with Vaginismus that makes penile penetration difficult or impossible due to the involuntary contraction of the pelvic muscles. Its origin is essentially psychological.

“Recent media and the wave that followed have some what pulled sexology out of hiding, trying to make communication about sexuality and body more natural. People have as many problems as before, but at least they can talk and realize they are not the only ones to suffer”, said a sexologist. 

What is women’s frigidity? Lack of desire or lack of pleasure? 

It is an unclear term, which often concerns very different situations. Pleasure happens primarily in the head. It would be better to speak about lack of physical and emotional pleasure: 

The normal orgasm

A female orgasm is accompanied by contractions of the vagina, a heavy breathing, a tachycardia, and pupillary dilation. The clitoral and vaginal pleasures are often distinguished, in practice they are more or less interconnected or more or less dominating:

The clitoral pleasure

The clitoris is an erectile organ which is small and very sensitive at the top of the labia minora. The cap that covers it can be compared to the male foreskin. The raised part, slightly bent, is called "knee". The descending part, much shorter, ends in the glans. Here are located the endings nerves (in very large numbers). It is very similar to the male gland which is its exact parallel, at least in infancy.

In the first weeks of pregnancy, fetal sex organs are still undifferentiated. It was not until the third or fourth week that the clitoris will grow to become a male (or not, if a girl ...). Even though it is not the only seat of orgasm, it is almost always the starting point because, first, the clitoris is much more richly innervated than the vaginal mucosa. Second, many experiments (those of Masters and Johnson in particular) have shown that there is, in fact, a single orgasm, both vaginal and clitoral.

Home Remedies for Frigidity, Low Female Libido and Lack of Sexual Desire

Frigidity is a problem among a lot of women around the world. It can commonly be described as the lack of fulfilment or satisfaction from sex, the reason behind which could be simple lack of sexual desires. Often, the reasons for frigidity are traced back to psychological reasons, and can be a result of what a person thinks or feels about sex. For instance, in a lot of cultures, sex is considered to be a sin, and in some other cases, people are not very comfortable talking about sex and do not wish to indulge in it at all. This then causes frigidity, because the person does not feel the need to have sexual pleasure at all. In other cases, a traumatic childhood sexual experience, or any other instance of rape too can cause frigidity. Then depression, anxiety, fights with the partner, lack of interest in the partner too can be counted as several other reasons.

The symptoms of frigidity are pretty normal to identify in nature. There is vaginal dryness, and the person - in the event that she does have lovemaking- does not enjoy sex at all. The lovemaking in such cases can also be very painful, and there is overall lack of the libido. Very often, if the partner is not very skilled or is not very loving and caring, a woman might not feel as 'turned on' as she should ideally, and thus, that too can cause frigidity.

Thankfully, there are certain home remedies with which one can solve the problem of frigidity. However, it must be realised that these home remedies will only show full effect when a person is mentally prepared to have sex. Until and unless a person does not feel the need to make love to the partner, no home remedy will be useful. But yes, to sort problems of lesser libido, and to deal with stress, anxiety and depression, these home remedies are quite useful.

You could begin by including some healthy items in your diet such as eggs, some healthy seeds and nuts such as pumpkin seeds, dry fruits etc. Then you should also include alfalfa sprouts, olive oil, sesame oil and soy. At the same time, you should avoid sugary substances and read meat.

Chives and Kava Kava can be consumed to deal with female sexual problems. Chives basically have the minerals which are needed by the body to produce sexual hormones. And Kava Kava can sort out problems of nervousness, and extreme anxiety and stress.

Ginger Root also is used to cure the problem of frigidity and low female libido. It is considered to be a home remedy that comes from the traditional Chinese medicines, and its regular consumption has shown good results in women.

Why Women Struggle With Orgasm

I was asked recently to contribute to an article in Men's Health on Why Women Don't or Can't Have Orgasms. Excerpts of this appeared in last month's edition. Here is a more in-depth look at this complex topic that impacts on the pleasure and relationships of many women.

The reasons for this to happen are many and cover a spectrum. First off is purely physical, their partner's don't know what they're doing, how to touch them. Often women don't know enough about their own bodies so they can't guide their partner's.

Linked to this, but its own issue, is lack of communication. This takes the form of women not being able to ask for how she'd like to be touched, the very specific stimulation she needs, and her partner not asking her.

The next reason is belief. The sexual beliefs we hold have enormous impact on our behavior. These beliefs are communicated through family, religious and social teachings. So much of what we do comes out of what we hear and see our parents, family, teachers and peers say and do. I've come to see that so much of what we learn about sex and intimacy is from what's never said, rather then what is. If you think about the amount of sexual misrepresentation and myth we grow up with, what's ignored or never said has great power. So if you get the idea that sex is not pleasurable, or not for pleasure, or even purely for your husband's pleasure, it will have great impact on your ability to have orgasm.