The pleasure is all yours
The pleasure is all yours
About 30% of women felt pain the last time they had intercourse, and most of it was mild and brief. Much of that pain comes down to timing, not desire.
Some pain during sex is a timing problem. Here’s what the research shows Read Post »
Told it would be “a quick pinch”? You didn’t overreact. Research shows clinicians underestimate women’s pain during procedures like IUD insertion — and the gap has been measured.
Your pain was measured. It was also underestimated. Read Post »
The question you didn’t ask If you’ve been living with dryness, burning or pain during sex since menopause and decided
The diagram you were given Picture the illustration from your school biology textbook. Uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix — a
The anatomy was complete in 1844. The textbooks dropped it anyway. Read Post »
The search that returns nothing You went looking. A specific question about your own body — pain, dryness, a change
The platform said vagina was adult content. The men’s health ad ran fine. Read Post »
The conversation that stops one sentence short Your friends will tell you almost anything. Salary, marriage trouble, the results of
Why women don’t talk to each other about this — and what changes when they do Read Post »
The version where everything is fine Nothing is wrong. He’s attentive. You like him. Sex happens with reasonable frequency and
He wasn’t taught either — and that’s the part nobody talks about Read Post »
The conversation that didn’t happen You probably remember the version you got. A pamphlet, or a hurried explanation about periods,
What your mother didn’t tell you — and what she probably wasn’t told either Read Post »
The Words That Change What You Can Do With What You’re Feeling There is a specific kind of relief that
The Words That Change What You Can Do With What You’re Feeling Read Post »
No one said it directly. That’s the important thing to understand about how the permission got withheld. No one told
You’ve Been Given Permission to Want Things. You Just Weren’t Told. Read Post »
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