Sexual pain: a thorny embrace! How illness, pain, and cancer treatment alter sexuality in women, men, couples

The book is about sexual difficulties caused by gynecological or general conditions, or have unknown causes, or follow cancer treatment. When sexual dysfunction and organic pathology are associated, each influences and worsens the other. Pain flares up with intercourse, impacting physical and emotional well-being. The couple suffer for limitations to their intimacy, often without understanding the link between illness and sexual difficulties. 

The book aims at improving their awareness. It is  divided into three parts: the first covers genital and pelvic pathologies; the second part discusses penetration pain due to vulvar and vaginal atrophy, vulvovestibular syndrome, and vaginismus; the third part addresses the sexual difficulties of oncology patients, male and female, who must endure the medications side effects in addition to the damage from ablative surgery. Intimate and rarely discussed topics are made familiar through descriptions of clinical cases.