Sexual pain is experienced by an average 14% of Australian women, and while the causes of this, like the conditions endometriosis and vaginismus, are slowly creeping their way into the common consciousness of medical professionals and the public alike, the impact is still wildly taboo to discuss. "When it comes to sex, all I can think constantly is that there is something wrong with me," Holly tells 9Honey, as she discusses her experience dealing with both conditions. Typified by a severe, abnormal pain during menstruation and sex as a result of lesions on the uterus, endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women worldwide. Vaginismus, a condition that lacks concrete data on how many women are affected by it, because of the stigma attached to it, is the involuntary spasming of pelvic floor muscles, which causes penetration to be extremely painful. Holly suffers excruciating pain when she has penetrative sex. (Pexels) […]