Vaginismus

In medicine, vaginismus is a condition where the muscles at the entrance to vagina contract, preventing successful sexual intercourse. It is most commonly caused by psychological problems but it may sometimes be due to vaginal inflammation.

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Psychological causes of vaginismus can usually be treated effectively by a sex therapist.

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Vaginismus is a painful or spastic contraction of a woman's pelvic floor muscles that occurs with attempted penetration of the vagina. Young women may be unable to begin having intercourse without pain.

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Some women with vaginismus shun sexual contact for fear that it may lead to attempted penetration. Other affected women have otherwise normal sexual response, and can reach orgasm through forms of masturbation and outercourse.

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Medicine: Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge....

Sexual intercourse: :This article is about sexual intercourse in humans and its societal implications. For biological copulation in general, see copulation....

Woman: A woman is an adult female human being, as contrasted with a man, an adult male, and a girl, a female child. The term woman (irregular plural: women) is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both....