Painful sexual intercourse
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Related diseases
Painful sexual intercourse, or dyspareunia, is constant or recurring pain in the genitals before, during, or after sexual intercourse, not due to lack of lubrication or vaginismus (involuntary contraction of the pelvic floor muscles in women). The causes can be psychological and medical.
Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology