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The Cycle of Pain in Sex Therapy
A big thing that we talked about in sex therapy is the cycle of pain. A lot of people who are having pain and sex, they want to have sex with their partner because they love the person or they want to be intimate. But then they find themselves again stuck in the cycle of knowing that the pain is coming, knowing that it's going to be happening again. And then they're anticipating it, anticipating that pain to come. Then they're starting to brace themselves or even feeling more tense in their body, which actually increases their pain receptors. Right.