ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Vaginismus Awareness Network</title> <meta name="description" content="Vaginismus Awareness Network is a non-profit site to give information on vaginismus and tips on self-treatment from women who went through the journey" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Vaginismus, painful intercourse, vaginismus cure" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="sitemap.xml" /> <style type="text/css"> a {text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold} a:link {color: maroon; text-decoration: none} a:visited {color: black} a:hover {text-decoration: underline} .caution2 {font-family: Century Schoolbook; font-size: 13px; color: black; font-weight: bolder} .caution3 {font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 13px} .caution4 {font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 18px; color: black; font-weight: bolder} .caution5 {font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 12px; color: black; font-weight: bolder} .caution6 {font-family: Kristen ITC; color: maroon; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14px;} .caution7 {font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 18px; color: maroon; font-weight: bolder} .caution8 {font-family: Century Schoolbook; font-size: 13px; color: white; font-weight: bolder} #counter { width: 170px; color: white; background-color: #111; font-size: 1.2em; padding: 4px 0 4px 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8166528195730308"; /* VAG */ google_ad_slot = "4320045152"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src=""> </script> <table width="100%" align="center" bgcolor="#663300" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td><br> <table align="center" width="960" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><img src="logo-van.jpg" width="960" height="150" alt="Vaginismus Awareness Network"></td> </tr> </table> <table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" width="960" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr> <td><div align="center"> <h1> <font size="1" face="Gill Sans MT"><strong>A WOMEN-LED, NON-PROFIT SITE TO RAISE AWARENESS ON VAGINISMUS, UNDERSTAND ITS CAUSES, GIVE TIPS ON SELF-TREATMENT, BREAK MYTHS CAUSING PAINFUL SEX OR DIFFICULT INSERTIONS AND OFFER FACTS AND OPINIONS TO WOMEN, THEIR PARTNERS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS, TO STOP THE SUFFERING AND EXPLOITATION LINKED WITH THIS MISUNDERSTOOD SEXUAL ISSUE. - WRITTEN BY <a href="whoiswho.html">WOMEN WHO WENT THROUGH THE JOURNEY -</a> <br><hr></strong></font></h1> </div></td></tr> </table> <table align="center" width="960" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <td> <div align="center"><font size="4" face="Papyrus"><a href="/practioners.htm">For Practitioners</a></font></div></td> <td> <div align="center"><font size="4" face="Papyrus"><a href="/women.htm">For Women</a> </font></div></td> <td> <div align="center"><font size="4" face="Papyrus"><a href="partners.htm">For Partners</a></font></div></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <td valign="top"> <div align="center"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"><a href="lit_review.html">1. Literature review on vaginismus </a><br> <a href="limitations.html">2. Limitations of diagnostic criteria</a><br> <a href="misconceptions.html"> 3. Misconceptions about Vaginismus </a><br> <a href="misdiagnosis.html">4. Vulvodynia, Dyspareunia, V.Vestibulitis + Vag</a> <br> <a href="gynobooks.html">NEW! 5. Gynaecological textbooks: bias</a><br> <a href="bestpractices.html">6. Internal exams: Best practices for Vag.</a><br> <a href="dumb_gynos.html"> 7. What women won't tell their gynos </a><br> <a href="retraumatization.html">8. Internal exams, abuse & retraumatization</a><br> <a href="drugs.html">9. Depression, Drugs & Vaginismus</a><br> <a href="HPV.html">10. HPV vaccine and Vag. women</a><br> <a href="ref.html"> 11. Our References and Biblio on Vag. </a> <br><br> </font></div></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="center"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"><a href="why.html">1. Why me? Possible causes of Vag.</a><br> <a href="anatomy.html"> 2. Vulvar Anatomy: Naming your parts</a><br> <a href="single.html">3. Single women and vaginismus</a><br> <a href="virgins.html">4. Virgins and vaginismus</a><br> <a href="consummation.html">5. Unconsummated Marriages</a><br> <a href="pregnancy.html">6. Pregnancy and vaginismus</a> <br> <a href="motherhood.html">7. Biological Clocks ticking & Vag.</a><br> <a href="success_story.html"> 8. What&#8217;s healing? Our success stories</a><br> <a href="dumb_gynos.html"> 9. Hurtful things gynos say + do</a><br> <a href="feminism.html">10. Feminism & Vaginismus</a><br><br> LIST of international<a href="support.html">SUPPORT GROUPs and FORUMs</a><br> <br><br> </font></div></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="center"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"><a href="batcat.html">1. The winged cat: a fairytale on vaginismus</a><br> <a href="men_reactions.html">2. Men&#8217;s main reactions to vag.</a> <br> <a href="misconceptions.html"> 3. Myths to dispell about Vaginismus </a><br> NEW! <a href="senna.html">4. Interview with a partner: on sex love & vag</a><br> <a href="tipsy.html">5. Tips: how you can help her</a><br> <a href="telling.html">NEW ! 6. How to tell someone about Vaginismus </a><br> <a href="circumcision.html">7. Positions & Circumcision<a/><br> <a href="porn&vag.html">8. Porn and vaginismus</a><br> <a href="sexpectations.html"> 9. SEXpectations and Vag.</a><br> <a href="ED&vag.html"> 10. Erectile dysfunctions & Vag.</a><br> <a href="links.html">11. Support groups for him</a><br> <br> </font></div></td> </tr> </table> <table align="center" width="960" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <hr> <td> <div align="center"><img src="milky_way.jpg" border="0"></div></td> <td> <div align="center"><a href="guide.html"><img src="D-guide.jpg" border="0"></a></div></td> <td> <div align="center"><img src="fist.jpg" border="0"></div></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <td> <div align="center"><font size="3" font color="maroon" face="Papyrus">SEX & VAGINISMUS</font></div></td> <td> <div align="center"><font size="3" font color="maroon" face="Papyrus"><a href="/women.htm">OUR FREE GUIDES</a> </font></div></td> <td> <div align="center"><font size="3" font color="maroon" face="Papyrus">ALL ON VAG.</font></div></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <td valign="top"> <div align="center"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"><br><a href="location.html">1. The location of pain during intercourse </a><br> <a href="myths.html">2. MYTHS on hymens, vaginas and sex</a><br> <a href="vmessage.html"> 3. Listen to your vagina!</a><br> <a href="relax.html">4. Not just i/c ! Soulful Sex, Outercourse & Sensate Focus</a><br> <a href="pinkviagra.html">5. The search for a Pink Viagra</a><br> <a href="transition.html">6. The Transition to intercourse</a><br> <a href="aftersex.html">7. After sex is possible: so now what?</a> <br> <a href="analsex.html">8. Anismus</a><br> <a href="compliance.html"> 9. Sexual compliance: are you doing it for his sake?</a><br> <a href="problems.html">10. Problems: bleeding, allergies, pain</a><br> <br></font></div></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="center"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"><br><a href="guide.html">1. Guide to Dilating<br>to help you <br> self-treat your<br>Vaginismus</a> <br><br> 2. <a href="gynoguide.html"> Guide to a smooth<br> gynaecological visit<br> and painfree<br> Pap-smear Test</a><br> </font></div></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="center"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"><a href="vagdefinition.html">1 What IS Vaginismus ?</a> <br> <a href="che.html"> 2. Vag. can be cool !</a><br> <a href="diagnosis.html">3. Self-diagnosis test + symptoms check-list</a><br> <a href="misconceptions.html">4. Don't believe these myths about Vag.!</a><br> <a href="hymen.html"> 5. The Hymen and Vaginismus </a><br> <a href="religion.html">6. Religions & Vaginismus (Jewish, Catholic)</a><br> <a href="treatments.html"> 7. TREATMENTS: Pros and Cons</a><br>( Dilating - Botox - Physical Therapy - Counselling -<br> Acupressure - Intensive Treatments - Hypnosis -Hymenectomy)<br> <a href="media.html">8. Vaginismus in the Media </a><br><a href="profiting.html"> 9. who profits from Vag.?</a><br> <a href="tampons.html"> 10. Tampons, Mooncups & Vag.</a> <br> </font></div></td> </tr> </table> <table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" width="960" border="0" bordercolor="maroon" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10"> <tr> <hr> <td width="50%" class="caution5"> <div align="center"> <font face="Papyrus" size="5" color="maroon">The V-Network:</font> Read here <a href="whoiswho.html"> Who We Are </a> and why we created this.<br> </div> </td> <td width="50%" class="caution5"> <div align="center"> <font face="Papyrus" size="5" color="maroon"><a href="/feedback.html">What women say about us:</a></font><br> <marquee behavior=scroll direction="left" scrollamount="3" width="80%"> Can I first start by saying your network and website are just fantastic and your writers have become the sane voices in my head as I struggle to manage and "treat" my vaginismus. I am a 30 year old woman from South Australia and since being diagnosed, I have been...<a href="/feedback.html">(Click here to keep reading all the feedback)</a> </marquee> <br><br></div><hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="caution4"> <div align="center"> Check out available <font face="Papyrus" size="4" color="maroon">Translations </font>done by our amazing volunteers:</font> <br> <a href="indice.html"><img src="italian.gif" alt="In Italiano"> </a> <a href="de.html"> <img src="german.jpg" alt="In Deutch"> </a> <a href="lista.html"> <img src="spanish.jpg" alt="En Espa ol"> </a> <a href="portuguese_vaginismo.html"> <img src="port.jpg" alt="In Portuguese"> </a> <a href="slovak_vaginismus.html"> <img src="SLOVAK.jpg" alt="In Slovak"> <hr> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" width="960" border="1" bordercolor="maroon" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10"> <div align="center"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"><!-- // Begin Pollhost.com Poll Code // --> <form method=post action="http://poll.pollcode.com/2QVQ"><table border=0 width=150 bgcolor="EEEEEE" background=http://pollcode.com/images/bg/red_stripe_vert.gif cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2><tr><td colspan=2><font face="Verdana" size=-1 color="Black"><b>What's your partner's attitude to your vag ?</b></font></td></tr><tr><td width=5><input type=radio name=answer value="1"></td><td><font face="Verdana" size=-1 color="Black">Is very understanding. 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All material is gathered from the experience of hundreds of women who experienced vaginismus but it is for information only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional or medical advice, diagnosis, and treatment. Please review the information contained on vaginismus-awareness-network.org carefully and confer with a health care professional specialized in vaginismus, as needed.</td> </tr> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>