Practicing vaginistic femininity: Doing bodies, enacting normative heterosexuality

Vaginismus is a female sexual pain disorder, characterized by contractions of the pubococcygeus (PC) muscle that surrounds the outer third of the vagina, which makes penetrative penile-vaginal intercourse (coitus), insertion of a finger or tampon and gynecological examinations hard or impossible, an...

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Main Author: Stephanie Stelko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
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Online Access:http://compaso.eu/wpd/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Compaso2015-62-Stelko.pdf