Woman's strict religious upbringing left her vagina 'too tight to have sex'

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sex", and she's determined to help others with the same condition. Bailey Krawczyk, 22, who is a videographer from Virginia, US, said she has felt different to other girls since she was 13-years-old.

During the time, her and her friends started to go through puberty, she noticed she was the only one who wasn't able to use tampons.READ MORE: 'Britain's most famous swinger' shares wildest OnlyFans requests that are 'too vile'Bailey simply thought it was down to the fact that her body was still growing, but she was still unable to use them at the age of 21.This was because trying to insert them simply left her in too much pain, and in 2020 she was diagnosed with vaginismus.It's a common but under-diagnosed condition that's thought to affect between 5% and 17% of women worldwide.

Vaginismus essentially makes the vaginal muscles tighten up when confronted with penetration, which can lead to extreme pain during sex or when inserting tampons.Bailey said: "I first tried to put a tampon in when I was in eighth grade, but I could never do it."I wrote that off as being because my body wasn’t fully developed, so I just stayed away from tampons for a long time. "It was probably at 21 when I started to revaluate why I couldn’t use a tampon."Something wasn’t adding up because all my girlfriends could use them with no issue at all, but I can’t. "In December 2020, I went to my OBGYN, who sent me to a pelvic floor therapist, and I was diagnosed with vaginismus."Luckily the condition is something that can be cured via a mixture of pelvic floor exercises, vaginal dilators, and psychotherapy, but Bailey confessed she found the process daunting.