Thousands of women are silently suffering from a little–known condition that can make sex, tampon use and even smear tests agonising – or impossible.
Known as vaginismus, the disorder causes the pelvic floor muscles to involuntarily tighten, leaving some women unable to tolerate any form of penetration.
Now, celebrities including Meghan Trainor, as well as storylines in hit Netflix series Sex Education and Unorthodox, are helping to raise awareness of the condition.
And Channel 4‘s Virgin Island has thrust the issue back into the spotlight, with 22–year–old Joy candidly revealing how shame and anxiety left her unable to have sex.
In the programme’s first
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