FYI, it’s called vaginismus, it affects 6-12% of the population depending on who you ask, and the “lock down” is completely a reflex, like blinking, and some women have to desenitize with a series of dilators and even botox in order to sucessfully have sex! Seriously, it just sounds like a nightmare, and I’m sure its very upsetting.
I don’t think according to your links, that a woman whose vaginal length is 3" and expands 150% to 4.5 inches, is an outlier. Neither is one which begins at 4" and expands to 8". Both are perfectly normal, even “average.”
Amusing hijack: I’m on a road trip with a male friend and he has asked me to be the navigator and read the map for him. I’m pretty good with maps and geography, but have depth perception issues, and therefore, a terrible sense of distance. Ask me to sight a mile and I couldn’t tell you how far a mile is (I would start walking and stop when I counted off 5,280 steps!)
He said, “Gah! Look at the scale in the legend! How many miles is it?”
I said, "Lookit. I have no idea. I’ve spent my entire adult life hearing men try to convince me that this
:: holds up thumb and forefinger, spaced about 4" apart ::
is ten inches.
I’m sorry I have no sense of distance. From this map, it’s about an inch and a half to the next exit."
Oh right, like I could stay on track and count all the way past 5,000 without being distracted by a shiny ball or something. I’d probably walk halfway to Cleveland before I’d stop and go :smack: crap, what number was I on?
