Foreplay Emphasis should be placed upon the fact that there is marked individual variation in the time span in which each area of sensory perception is appreciated. Mood, level of need, quality of partner involvement, etc., all vary widely, frequently…
The most effective intercourse technique probably is the teasing approach of light-touch moving at random from the breasts to the abdomen to the thighs to the labia to the thighs and back to the abdomen and breasts without concentrating specifically…
The husband has directed to place himself in a sitting (slightly reclining, if desired) position, with his back against a comfortable placement of pillows at the headboard of the bed. With the husband’s legs adequately separated to allow his wife…
Non-Orgasmic Whether distressed by primary or situational dysfunction, must develop adaptations within areas of perceptual, behavioral, and philosophic experience. A non-orgasmic woman must learn or relearn to feel sexual (respond to sexual stimuli) within the context of and related directly…
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…
