Profile of Women With Genito-Pelvic Pain Attended at Sexuality Center

Abstract

It’s estimated that 2% of women fail to achieve vaginal penetration, resulting in substantial personal and interpersonal suffering. Describe the profile of women with pain or inability to achieve vaginal penetration and evaluate possible etiological factors involved in the genesis of this sex dysfunction, recently named as genito-pelvic pain (GPP). Cross-sectional retrospective study of hospital records of 225 women diagnosed with “GPP”. The evaluated criteria were: age, union time, dysfunction time, partner sexual dysfunction, psychiatric disorders, schooling, religion, affective situation, history of sexual abuse, presence of vaginal penetration and anxiety on physical examination. Age 29.5 years, union time of 5 years, dysfunction time of 6 years, fixed partner in 84.8%, monthly frequency of sexual intercourse 3 times, 65.3% do not achieve vaginal penetration, partner dysfunction in 15.1%, sexual abuse or trauma in 34.8%, psychiatric illness in 28.5%, more frequent religions were evangelical (34,4%) and catholic (35.8%) and schooling of 64% with high school and 59% with higher education. In the physical examination, 58.4% presented physical examination anxiety, statistically significant when comparing the absence of penetration since the first sexual intercourse, absence of penetration after normal period and presence of penetration but with pain (p = 0.01).