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• Sexual Communication Technique (written by Alex Caroline Robboy, CAS, MSW, ACSW, LCSW

• Sexual Experience (written by Alex Caroline Robboy, CAS, MSW, ACSW, LCSW)

Sexual Experience: does your partner know what you are experiencing?  If not, share with your partner the answers to the following questions:

1. Have you always had painful intercourse? Or has sex only recently become painful? Does the pain change depending upon where you are in your menstrual cycle?  Is it possible that the reason you are having pain during intercourse is that you are rarely stimulated enough prior to penetration? 
2. Are you experiencing any other symptoms?
3. Do you always experience pain during intercourse? Or is it dependent upon the situation? How is having painful intercourse effecting your ability to be intimate with your partner?
4. If you avoid intercourse is your sexual experience still pleasurable? What is your natural sex drive?  How arousable are you? Do you orgasm? Are you lubricating during sex?
5. How intense is the pain?
6. When do you feel pain?
7. Where does it hurt?

* If you are having difficulty answering the above questions you might benefit from the following tip: Mindful Sex

Sharing the above information will help your partner gain a better understanding of what you are experiencing. Now the two of you will be in a better position to brainstorm together ways to minimize the pain that you experience.  Ideas include, but are not limited to

1. Increasing foreplay
2. Increasing emotional intimacy
3. Sensate focus exercises – to help the two of you learn how to please one another more effectively
4. The use of lubricant (e.g. KY Jelly or Astroglide) during intercourse
5. Vaginal massage prior to intercourse
6. Relaxing your vaginal muscles, including, but not limited to deep breathing
7. Outercourse (kissing, manual stimulation, oral sex, sexy stories, etc)
8. Self hypnosis

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Philadelphia PA 19106
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