What are some of the ways chronic pelvic pain can contribute to FSD?
For some women, arousal itself causes pain and for others it’s a mechanical thing in the act of intercourse — either through friction, or from bumping into tender parts of the woman’s pelvic anatomy. Pain can happen during intercourse, during climax, or post-coitally. Some problems you can work with more easily than others. If it’s a matter of tender internal organs, then the couple can engage in non-intercourse sex. Should intercourse always be the desired outcome? I say no. But if they are getting pain on arousal, or pain from being touched, that can be more difficult to adapt to. Q: What can be some of the causes of this type of pain? A: Just from a purely physical perspective, the pelvis has got the bladder, bowel, uterus, muscles and ligaments, to name a few. So those three organs, and the surrounding tissues, are all jam-packed right there in the pelvis. And if there is something wrong with any one of those organs, intercourse can be painful. There’s also the skin, there’s the vu
