I was wondering about that--not being in any position to know--I saw "2%" on the website that Google found, and over the next 5-10 minutes began to think, hmm, how many women who find intercourse painful due to vaginismus report it to their doctors (if they even have doctors), and how many report it but still get brushed off with "it's all in your head"? If we assume that only half of those who suffer from it tell their doctors, and half of them get brushed off, the incidence immediately goes up to 8%, and we haven't even considered women without doctors yet.
Thanks for holding off on the rant. Suffice it to say that Western medicine, after a somewhat promising start in the Renaissance, completely lost its grip on both male and female sexuality, to the detriment and even loss of billions of people's lives. Odd that the tradition that came up with smallpox vaccine and penicillin was completely unable to understand or acknowledge sexuality, especially female sexuality, for so long.
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Date: 2003-10-10 04:33 pm (UTC)Thanks for holding off on the rant. Suffice it to say that Western medicine, after a somewhat promising start in the Renaissance, completely lost its grip on both male and female sexuality, to the detriment and even loss of billions of people's lives. Odd that the tradition that came up with smallpox vaccine and penicillin was completely unable to understand or acknowledge sexuality, especially female sexuality, for so long.