Terri Fisher

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So I think that that's part of what our study aimed to kind of contribute to science is the fact that pain during sex and sort of like a non-medical setting is more common than a lot of people think, but it's not necessarily normal.

And so that's what we were hoping to start a conversation about.

Yeah, there's a lot of different reasons that we found and we broke them down into several different themes.

And it was everything from, you know, like maybe desire to please a partner.

They don't want to speak up and like ruin the moment by saying that they're in pain.

Maybe they feel some sort of like pressure, obligation to finish the sexual activity.

Or maybe the pain is normalized for them and they don't think that it's something that needs to be brought up.

Oh, yeah, it definitely does a little bit, which is interesting.

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 so normalized.

for women.

And 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.