We all know what erectile dysfunction is but literally no one is ever taught what vaginismus is and it can cause people to feel extremely lost, broken, and cause people to take their own lives. Raise. Awareness.

For the uninformed, vaginismus is when the vagina painfully tightens and spasms when faced with pressure, usually from anything trying to insert into the vagina. It’s the reason I can’t wear tampons, and why many people can’t have vaginal sex without severe pain.

There’s not a lot of treatments, and there isn’t a single one that is for vaginismus exclusively - they’re all medications or treatments to treat symptoms, but not the causes. In fact, for a long time doctors waved off vaginismus as a purely psychological disorder in cis women.

Seriously, this is so unaddressed and uncared for in medical circles. Please spread awareness, even if all it’s for is to let those who have it but don’t have a name for it finally be able to understand what’s happening to their bodies.

Certified Sex Ed Post!

Hi hello! This post is almost 10 years old and there ARE treatments for this. Vaginismus is otherwise known as pelvic hypertonia and it is a MUSCULAR condition that can be caused by many different factors including endometriosis, trauma, chronic UTIs, and connective tissue disorders.

It’s incredibly common! And it can be treated by physiotherapy.

I know this because I’m currently undergoing physio and although it can take months to recover, I’m already seeing improvement. A lot of the pelvic floor exercises are available online, but if you have these symptoms please TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR and see if you can get a physio referral (or investigation for underlying causes like endometriosis).

Also, my additions to posts never get reblogged so a note to my followers: this is SUPER IMPORTANT ISSUE that affects many people and is rarely talked about. Please reblog, and please share this info with as many people as possible.

Pelvic hypertonia/vaginismus is incredibly debilitating and psychologically damaging but it CAN BE TREATED. Spread the word, and you never know who you’ll be throwing a lifeline to.

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I don't think she knows what she's doing

Collin's her freakyness awakening that what

I scrolled through ur blog to find this image again and holy so of a bitch my chrome lagged so much for the entire ten minutes aaaaaAHHHHHHHHH

I kid you not I was scrolling through ur blog and I saw this and just started laughing for a minute straight omfg

“Alternates come in many shapes and sizes, just like humans. It’s no wonder it’s hard to tell the different sometimes…”

So I have something big to post very soon, but I’ve also been working on this in the meantime: a ref sheet for some of the background alternates in AiA! They’re all unique personalities…perhaps a little TOO unique for some of them. Anyway, they’re officially added to the roster of characters ✨✨

(Don’t tell them this but Rubin’s my favorite. My poor cringe fail son 💔)

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.

Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.

Reblogging to do

what the failed education

system never did.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!

Also, just about every computerized device outside of desktops is running ARM chips now. Your phone, your keyboard, your car, your watch. Basically everything.

And ARM was primarily designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman.

Also gotta throw on Lynn Conway, whose work brought about VSLI [Very Large Scale Integration] in chip design in the early 80s. Basically all modern microelectronics depends on Conway’s work, which got logic gates on a single chip up from thousands to millions.

BTW all of this was after IBM fired her in 68 for disclosing she wanted to transition. They apologized in 2020.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who who worked on COBOL, Hedy Lamar, who patented frequency hopping, the underlying principle of WiFi.

Delia Derbyshire over there building a synthesizer from scratch to play the Dr. Who theme on.

The game cartridge? A black guy called Jerry Lawson.

i hate menstruation omfg i can just be laughing, then i shift in my seat and BOOM a clump of failed baby cells appear like it's the third coming of christ like give me a break

i stand up from my chair and see the ungodly stain of blood on the cloth: fuck you

Reader: My first shift at builder bros ! Nothing bad could ever happen !

007n7: *Slams the front door open* give me sixty nine pizzas right now or I’m making everyone in here see the pearly gates of heaven-

Reader:…..Elliot I’m scared.

Elliot: *Sighs and ties his apron* ..it’s okay you get used to it, eventually.

-

*After being forsaken.*

Reader:….Hi.

007n7: Hey.. I’m so sorry for what I put you through when I was younger as well.

Reader:……..*Slowly turns to Elliot.*

Elliot:..You don’t have to forgive him-

Reader: -Why did he get hotter after having a child ?

Elliot:….So I’m not alone in thinking that..

(I keep seeing beautiful pizzaburger fics, please someone make an x reader one that isn’t a oneshot I’m begging-)

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

🌷 Filipiniana / Maria Clara Miku (Illust for Mabuhay, Miku! CSE)

The Filipiniana is a traditional formal dress worn in the Philippines! 🇵🇭

If you come by a bowl, tray, or plate of sorts made out of paper mold don't eat out of that shit btw chances are the facility they were produced have black mold in their machines but you didn't hear that from me 😇

Mannn scratch that shit we packin our bowls contaminated with metal and everything y'all don't fuckin eat out of paper mold bowls or trays or anything like that

chances of food poisoning just went up 100% yall

2026

DO THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM AT WORK. MAKE ART THAT HURTS. ABANDON ALL GUILT AND SHAME. DONT LET THEM KILL YOUR SOUL. BECOME YOUR OWN PERSONAL GOD. GROW SPIKES. DONT LET THEM KILL YOUR SOUL