Sexual Coercion and Marital Rape

By Vanessa Snyder, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CST, MT, CSAT-C Resilience Source A few months ago, I was teaching a section of a course dealing with trauma, sexual assault and rape to over 200 theology and counseling graduate students from nine countries in Eastern Europe and...
Help. It hurts when I have sex. – For men.

Help. It hurts when I have sex. – For men.

We are sorry. No matter what you might have been told, sex is not supposed to hurt. Painful sex for men is not discussed often but isn’t uncommon. In the Marriage Intimacy Project study, 8%[1] of males said they experienced pain with sex at least half (50%) of the...
Help. It hurts when I have sex. – For men.

Help. It hurts when I have sex. – For women.

We are sorry. No matter what you might have been told, sex is not supposed to hurt. Yet, in the Marriage Intimacy Project study, 19% of women said they experienced pain with sex at least half (50%) of the time and 18% saidthe pain interfered with sexual pleasure at...
Help. It hurts when I have sex. – For men.

The Complexity of Sexual Pain

By: Deborah M Wade, MA, LPC, LMFT, CST, CSAT ACTSolutions, Grapevine, TX – Founder   As a marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist, one of my favorite areas of focus is working with couples who are experiencing sexual pain. My desire in therapy...