Many questions are found on Medical Forums from patients suffering from vaginismus and their relatives, interestingly some patients also mentioned society has failed to understand their condition and shunned their queries by asking them to grow up. Several times in past this condition was not even considered important enough to discuss with a physician, but as the time progressed physicians are able to help the patients with this condition, but still there is considerable ignorance towards this condition. From this current scenario in society, the real question one might ask is does vaginismus exists? The worldwide incidence of vaginismus is thought to be about 1 to 7%, with considering that disorder is cross-cultural.
In clinical settings, the incidence may be as high as 5 to 17%. Based on existing data, 0.5-1% of fertile women suffer from this symptom. Vaginismus is the medical…
