Dyspareunia, genital pain with intercourse, is a highly prevalent problem amongst female patients and a common cause of sexual dysfunction [1]. Dyspareunia is commonly classified as superficial or deep depending on the location of the pain. Superficial dyspareunia results from pain at the vaginal introitus upon penile penetration, whereas deep dyspareunia occurs with deep thrusting of the penis...

OBJECTIVE Dyspareunia is a common sexual dysfunction. There is a lack of studies that address female sexual dysfunction in Puerto Rico. The present cross-sectional study characterized dyspareunia in a sample of Puerto Rican women aged 40 to 59 years and evaluated the relationship between reported dyspareunia with demographic, lifestyle, and health factors. METHODS Nine hundred twenty Puerto R...

Current views suggest that in women with superficial dyspareunia the prospect of penile-vaginal intercourse automatically activates fear-related associations. The automatic activation of negative associations is assumed to interfere with the development of sexual arousal. In turn, this may further aggravate the dyspareunia-related complaints. To assess whether automatic negative associations ar...

OBJECTIVE To study whether post-partum dyspareunia one year after a delivery is associated with characteristics of delivery: perineal trauma, obstetric interventions and women's experience. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire on post-partum sexual function was mailed in May 2002 to all consecutive women who gave birth to a live-born term infant in a maternity unit, between January 2001 ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Endometriosis is a chronic condition in which endometrial glands and stroma are present outside of the uterus. Whereas chronic pelvic pain is the most commonly experienced pain of endometriosis, many women also suffer from deep dyspareunia. In order to determine how much of an impact endometriosis-associated dyspareunia has on the lives and relationships of women a qu...

INTRODUCTION Although research that takes into account partner and relationship factors in dyspareunia is slowly emerging, little is known about how these couples communicate about their sexuality. Additionally, partner psychosexual adjustment has not been examined in a controlled fashion. AIM This study aimed to compare dyadic sexual communication, dyadic adjustment, psychological adjustment...