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Why Some Women Go Along With Painful Sex—And Why They Shouldn’t

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October 01, 2019 at 11:11AM It’s time for a culture shift. Sex should not be painful. It is not normal to experience pain during sex. People with vaginas should not expect to feel pain during sex, ever. Unless it’s your kink and being consciously pursued, any pain experienced during sex is a sign that something’s wrong, whether physically or psychologically. And yet the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says nearly three out of every four women have experienced pain during intercourse at least once in their lives, and research shows up to 20% of women deal with dyspareunia, which is persistent pain during sex. To top it all off, a new study recently published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that half of all women experiencing pain during sex don’t even tell their partner it hurt. A team of researchers led by sexual health scientist Allison Carter, Ph.D., MPH, surveyed over 2,000 women about their most recent sexual experience, including asking about their levels of pain, pleasure, and what they disclosed to their partner about it all. Nearly a quarter of the women reported experiencing sexual pain. Of these 382 women who did experience sexual pain, 49% didn’t tell their partner about it. Moreover, those who’d experienced little to no pleasure during the sexual experience were three times more likely to not tell their partner about the pain.  Why some women don’t tell their partners about their sexual pain.  The researchers left space for women to explain why

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