Neither the biophysical nor the psychosocial systems which influence expression of the human sexual component have a biologically controlled demand to make specifically positive or negative contributions to sexual function. This fact does not alter the potential of the systems’…
The initial and most important step in the vaginismus treatment is the physical demonstration of the existence of the involuntary vaginal spasm conducted to the clinical satisfaction of both marital partners. First, anatomical illustrations of the involuntary constriction in the…
Dyspareunia Vaginismus occasionally develops in women with clinical symptoms of severe dyspareunia (painful intercourse). When dyspareunia has a firm basis in pelvic pathology, the existence of which escapes examining physicians, and over the months or years coition becomes increasingly painful,…
The following history exemplifies the onset of vaginismus subsequent to episodes of psychosexual trauma. There have been three women referred to therapy so physically and emotionally traumatized by unwelcome sexual attacks that vaginismus developed subsequent to their traumatic experiences. When…
Marital Couple A is illustrative of an etiological factor frequently encountered in vaginismus, that of the influence of channel visioned religious orthodoxy upon the immature and/or adolescent girl. Sex and Religious Orthodoxy When the couple was first seen in consultation,…
Vaginismus may be of such severity that a marriage cannot be consummated. Medical consultants frequently have mistaken unrecognized involuntary vaginal spasm for the presence of a pressure-resistant hymen. As the result of this clinical confusion, surgical excision of the presumed…
Vaginismus is a psychophysiological syndrome affecting women’s freedom of sexual response by severely, if not totally, impeding coital function. Anatomically this clinical entity involves all components of the pelvic musculature investing the perineum and outer third of the vagina. Physiologically,…
For many women, a basic homophile orientation is a major etiological factor in heterosexual orgasmic dysfunction. For those women committed to homosexual expression, lack of orgasmic return from heterosexual opportunity is of no consequence. But there are a large number…
Inadequate Orgasm In Women In order to be considered situationally non-orgasmic, a woman must have experienced at least one instance of orgasmic expression, regardless of whether it was induced by self or by partner manipulation, developed during vaginal or rectal…
Although emphasis has been placed upon the role of premature ejaculation in the etiology of primary orgasmic dysfunction, primary or secondary impotence also contributes. Again the basic theme of man-woman coital interaction must be emphasized. If there is not a…
