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Ouch! Is sex painful? Surprisingly, your birth control may be to blame. (Cosmo Gyno).(may thin vagina tissue)(Brief Article)

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Taking the Pill is supposed to make slipping between the sheets less stressful. But recent research found that women who took certain oral contraceptive were almost seven times more likely then those who didn't to develop vulvar vestibulitis--a condition marked by inflamed, irritated vaginal tissue and pain during intercourse that ...

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