Girls having painful sex

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Up to one third of women may experience pain during sex, but most never seek the treatment they need. S ex is painful for nearly one in 13 women, according to a study in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Most women never seek help. Some carry on having penetrative sex through gritted teeth. The medical name for painful sex — dyspareunia — covers a multitude of reasons why intercourse hurts, such as sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia or herpes , thrush and endometriosis which causes pelvic inflammation. This latest study used survey data from the third annual National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, on 6, sexually active women, and found those between the ages of 16 to 24 and 55 to 64 were most likely to have pain during sex.

Dyspareunia is a term used for pain felt in the genital area or pelvis during or after having vaginal sex. Nobody really knows exactly how common it is, as many women never seek medical help. However, questionnaires asking women if they have symptoms suggest that somewhere between 1 and 4 out of 10 women experience it. Most commonly, this is early in their sexual lives or around the menopause.

A large survey of almost 7, women in the U. The survey found that nearly one in 10 women report experiencing painful sex, with women ages reporting an especially high incidence of painful sex. The survey, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology , found that painful sex was most commonly linked to vaginal dryness during sex, feeling anxious during sex, and lack of enjoyment during sex. Some women involved in the survey reported feeling so afraid of pain, they avoided sex altogether. Painful sex isn't uncommon — according to statistics from the American College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians , 75 percent of women experience pain during sex at some point in their lifetimes.