GLOW REVEALS: DOWN THERE: Having pain during sex?
Sex is one of the great pleasures of life, right up there with high-end peanut butter cups and not having to live with your mom anymore. It’s glamorized in Hollywood (do they ever show the clean up?), sprawled across the cover of every woman’s magazine ever published, and gushed about for hours over brunch once the waiter is out of earshot. Sex truly is (or at least can be) an amazing, fulfilling experience. Except when it involves pain.
We took a hard look at Glow data and what we uncovered should come as no surprise: A lot of women experience pain during sex. The first week of the menstrual cycle (the one where you momentarily lose track of reality, only to discover that you've eaten a mousse cake with your bare hands) is usually when women log the least amount of pain during sex . Around day 9 of an average 28-day cycle, the number of users who feel like someone is wedging an oak tree into their vagina rises steadily until it takes its peak on day 15. From ovulation to the end of the month doesn't bring much reprieve either.
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