Private Pain

May 9, 2000
A Private Pain
(NBC News) May 9, 2000 - Eve and Kim are two very different women with a similar problem - a medical condition called vaginismus. Women with this problem experience involuntary spasms of the muscles around the vagina. During a spasm, the muscles tighten so much the vagina actually closes, making penetration extremely difficult, or in some cases, impossi..
May 21, 2002
Women Describe Their 'Private Pain' In New Book
(NBC News) May 21, 2002 - For Eve, the normal experiences of being a woman were impossible.
"I couldn't use a tampon. I couldn't have a gynecological exam. Not even a Q-Tip. I couldn't have sex... nothing would fit," she said. "I felt like I wasn't a whole person in a way, because sex is such a part of life, I just felt so far removed from the res..