Pain during sex : Useful resources
Unwanted Pain, Wanted Pleasure
Useful Resources
(This is not an exhaustive list, but does contain links that our panel regularly recommend as reliable and factual. If you have any medical concerns, please speak to your GP – they discuss these issues all the time and will make it as un-embarrassing as possible for you)
Lots of information on pain during sex, including vaginismus
Improving your sex life, by increasing your desire, number of orgasms, pain-free sex and how to be confident
https://www.sexualhealthoxfordshire.nhs.uk
Local sexual health services, from STI testing, contraception, PrEP, sexual assault support
https://www.endometriosis-uk.org
UK specific endometriosis support network with resources and education
Global forum for news and information
Providing support, information and advocacy for those with pelvic pain
Support network for reproductive health
Recommended reading
- The Wonder Down Under by Dr Nina Brochmann and Dr Ellen Stokken Dahl
- Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Lori A BroDo
- How To Have Feminist Sex by Flo Perry
- Mind The Gap by Dr Karen Gurney
- Losing It by Sophia Smith Galer
- The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
Podcasts and videos
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bvg9nm
- https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/how-can-we-improve-endometriosis- treatment/
- https://unheardof.libsyn.com/
- Sex Education on NeXlix
Media articles
https://theconversation.com/is-it-normal-to-get-sore-down-there-after-sex-111744
https://theconversation.com/does-your-vulva-hurt-you-could-have-vulvodynia-55038
Support services
Find a psychosexual and relationship therapist
Relationship support