Asking for a friend: Having sex is getting more and more painful and I’m too embarrassed to go to my GP, who is a man. What can I do?

I find that sex is painful for me, and it makes me not want to have sex anymore. It wasn’t always this way, but over the past few years I have noticed that it’s gotten worse to the point where my sex life is non-existent. My partner is understanding but I just feel like I’m broken and get so embarrassed.

I don’t want him to think I’m rejecting him either, I love him and I don’t want him to think I don’t, or that I don’t want to be with him. I did have this problem before him, and I haven’t been with many people, but it has been an issue for a few years now. I just haven’t wanted to deal with it, or I was mostly single, so I wasn’t too bothered.



But now I would love to have a better sex life and we are both frustrated..