Brea Perry

And with regard to the men feeling the pain and not speaking up, a lot of them were concerned it would make them seem like less of a man.

So gender roles were definitely playing a role.

Definitely.

Yeah.

So women are twice as likely to tell their partners about pain as men are.

And they're four times as likely during penile vaginal intercourse to stop the proceedings and try to change something.

Women are often told that pain is just part of being a woman in all realms of life.

And there is the false expectation that the first time a woman has sex is always going to be painful.

And then that seems to just sort of carry over into subsequent sex acts where people don't even think about the possibility of men experiencing pain.

But our research suggests that they do.

I mean, not nearly as much as women, but absolutely they do.

Absolutely.

And sort of what inspired us to do this study is I took a 200-level comparative sexual behavior course with Dr. Fisher.

And as part of that, we read an article by Lily Loof-Brow.

She wrote it in 2018.

And she was kind of discussing how pain during sex is something that's just

She broke it down and she did this Twitter poll where she asked women about their bad sexual experiences and then asked men about their bad experiences.

And for the most part, for women, it was considered bad if they were in pain, whereas for the men, it was bad if maybe they didn't have an orgasm from the sex.

And so very different feedback there.

No, I don't think that's necessarily the case.