vasocongestion

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  • Robin Mandell

First of all, you're completely okay and nothing you've described here means there's anything wrong with you. Nearly all people masturbate or have masturbated in their lives, and most masturbate with the kind of frequency you're describing. As well, it's very normal for little children to masturbate...

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  • Heather Corinna

Delilah: what you're describing is most likely a completely normal physiological response to being sexually aroused. Part of female sexual arousal, much like erection for men, is swelling of the genital tissues due to blood pooling in the pelvis: the clitoris (both externally as well as internally)...

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  • Heather Corinna

The technical term for "blue balls" is vasocongestion. It really isn't about balls at all, and it happens to people of all genders. Here's the deal: when any of us gets very sexually aroused, one thing that happens is that our whole pelvic area tends to fill with blood. That's how penises get...

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  • Heather Corinna

If anything, sexual activity can sometimes improve menstrual symptoms, but only if you're reaching orgasm. It's the uterine contractions and chemical changes in your brain due to orgasm -- not the activity itself, so much -- that can do that. On the other hand, if you're sexually active and not...

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  • Heather Corinna

Take a big breath. It's all going to be okay, and there's just no reason for you to be so scared. For starters, it's totally normal for ejaculate to run out like that after intercourse where the partner with the penis ejaculates without a condom. That's plain old gravity: when you're laying down or...

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  • Heather Corinna

So long as you know -- not just by guessing, but via regular, complete reproductive health exams -- that you're in sound reproductive health, and so long as that abdominal pain is really only showing up after intercourse, the most likely culprit for that symptom would simply be that you're not...