Brea Perry

I think there are lots of physical reasons that somebody might experience pain, but the not speaking up is psychological for sure.

So, yes, our study focused on a sample of about 263 college students.

They're all undergraduate level and they're taking the study as part of their research credit.

But it definitely would be interesting to expand it to a wider population to see what the differences might be across different age groups.

We recognize the limitations of our sample.

But we knew that we weren't going to be getting bots in our sample.

We also knew that our students were more likely to take the study seriously and give us complete answers because a lot of our questions were open-ended where they had to write.

But we intend in the future to expand it to a larger population.

I think it would be important for people to know that pain can happen during sex, that it's almost to be expected from time to time, and that communication is the very best way of dealing with that because there are lots of adjustments that can be made.

But if your partner doesn't know that you're in pain, then nothing's going to change.

Absolutely.

I second that.

And I also think it's important to highlight that talking about sex doesn't have to be sexual necessarily.

And it's not some taboo thing.

And, you know, communication is important.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.