Sister Stories
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The Pleasure Plan: One Woman’s Search For Sexual Healing
The Pleasure Plan: One Woman’s Search for Sexual Healing details Laura Zam’s personal journey with vaginismus and her advice for others out there suffering the…
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Partner Responses To ‘Sex Hurts Me’
Dyspareunia, or painful sex, can feel like it’s dominating your life sometimes, but especially when it comes to having to reveal your secret to another…
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The Importance of a Supportive Partner
It’s so important on this journey to have a supportive partner. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again. The early stages…
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He Left Me Spoiled Rotten
Trigger warning: this story is about abuse. To spoil is defined as “to diminish or destroy the value or quality of.” I remember both the…
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Explore The Principles of Pleasure
The Principles Of Pleasure Netflix documentary explores how people identifying as women experience sexual pleasure, the myths history has bestowed on us, and the facts…
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Living With(out) Sex
Today I’m covering a little self help book on vaginismus I just finished: Living With Sex: The Secret to Solving a Big F*cking Problem. This…
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Because I Didn’t Matter
Trigger warning: this story is about abuse. When I was seven years old, one of my mother’s friends brought her five year old to my…
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Heartbreak: Lannee’s Story
Hi. I’m Lannee. And in August of this year, I had my heart broken.It is now November, and the pain has only gotten worse. Mornings…
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When Sexy Time Turns Into Sad Time – My Life With Vaginismus: Lannee’s Story
“Vaginismus is the involuntary contraction of muscles around the opening of the vagina in women with no abnormalities in the genital organs.”– Rosemary Basson Well…I…
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Journey To Pleasurable Penetrative Sex: Anna’s Story
I was 20 years old when I lost my virginity. I believed in the notion that sex, at first for women, will be uncomfortable because…
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Body Image Issues, Brutal Family Pressures And Suppressed Trauma: Rachel’s Vaginismus Story
Trigger warning: Mention of rape. It’s been two years since the word, ‘vaginismus‘ was thrown at me. Two years of agony, two years of sadness,…
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Do It For You, Not For Anyone Else: Susana’s Story
The first time I’ve heard the word vaginismus I was 35 years old and I was not able to practice intercourse. By then, I was…