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Reasons why your cookie jar tightens before intimacy

There are ladies who experience pain during intimacy and they ignorantly take it to be normal especially when the pain has always been present. Unknown to them, they could be having a condition called Vaginismus. This is a condition is responsible for the pain a lady feels during intercourse or when she tries to insert objects such as tampons and speculums into her genitals. This is caused by tightening up of the vagina due to the involuntary contraction of the pelvic floor muscles.

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