Many women will experience pain during intercourse at some time in their lives, if the pain during sex is a recurring problem you could be suffering from dyspareunia, a term used for painful sexual intercourse due to medical or psychological causes.

Defined as “persistent or recurrent genital pain that occurs just before, during or after intercourse”, symptoms could include:

1. Pain only at sexual penetration

2. Pain with every penetration, even while putting in a tampon

3. New pain after previously pain-free intercourse

4. Deep pain during thrusting

5. Burning pain or aching pain

6. Throbbing pain, lasting hours after intercourse

The causes of dyspareunia can be different for many women, it can be caused by physical or emotional factors, or from injury, trauma, irritation, skin disorders(eczema or vaginismus), and involuntary spasms of the vaginal wall muscles. Psychological problems like depression, stress and previous sexual abuse can also cause the sexual pain.

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A “mature” sex worker, Taylor Tara from Australia, loves what she does for a living and explains why. “I think that they all think that we’re drug users, no-good people, alcoholics — our clients are all classed as deviants or sickos,” she said. “That’s why the nice ones don’t come out because they get stereotyped right the way across the board.”

Taylor didn’t start her career as a sex worker until her 40s, after a “bad run of boyfriends” when one day she found herself seriously considering a job at a local brothel.

Ms Tara said many of the men she saw were lonely and struggled with their mental health issues, “The majority have some form of depression,” she said. Naturally compassionate, she felt she could play a role in supporting isolated, vulnerable men.

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