A Case of Acute Vaginismus
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any practical way of treating the following condition? I have a patient who is a young Bengali girl of 20 quite healthy and robust. She was in love with a healthy young man, whom she married some two years back. Both the husband and the wife deny a history of even a single act of successful coitus, since their marriage. This being a very obstinate case of vaginismus, I have carefully gone into the history of the case but have failed to elicit any fact, to prove that the vaginismus was due to ignorance on the part of the husband or due to any psychical factor. Both the husband and the wife are fairly educated and are of
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