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How to avoid pain during defloration?
Last reviewed: 08.07.2025

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Defloration is feared by both girls and many boys, because it is widely believed that it is accompanied by pain. In fact, pain during defloration does not happen to everyone and not always - it depends on the anatomical features of the girl and how the sexual intercourse was performed. How to avoid pain during defloration? This can be done if you know how to properly conduct the first intimate contact.
How to reduce pain during defloration?
Whether there will be pain during defloration and what kind of pain it will be is affected not only by the elasticity of the hymen and the number of vessels located in it. The more vessels and the stronger the hymen, the more painful it will be for the girl to say goodbye to her virginity. But there is another important factor - the intensity of the penis entering the vagina and the state of the girl herself at the same time. If the girl is relaxed, and the man is also relaxed, and at the same time he is confident in his actions, sexual intercourse will be less painful than if the partner is tense.
How to perform sexual intercourse correctly during defloration?
The partner needs to insert the penis into the vagina all the way, then pull it out and not make any more frictions. In this case, if the hymen is torn, the following penetrations of the penis will be very painful. You need to wait until the wound heals. Especially since now the vagina and wound are open to infections - the risk of infection is maximum. During sexual intercourse, which is aimed at defloration - rupture of the hymen - there is a sex technique, thanks to which the pain is minimal or absent. Firstly, before the first night, you should stock up on lubricants - lubricants with painkillers in the composition. This painkiller is usually lidocaine.
With lubrication, friction, and therefore pain, are significantly reduced. To prevent unwanted pregnancy and infection of the partner with bacteria that the partner does not even suspect, it is advisable to make sexual intercourse protected - buy condoms. Many condoms provide additional protection for the vagina, because they are additionally coated with lubricant with bactericidal substances.
Do you need doctors to stop bleeding?
As a rule, bleeding during defloration is small and goes away without the help of doctors. But it can "smear" for up to 5 days. During this time, you need to use special thin pads. Preferably natural, cotton ones, so as not to irritate the vaginal mucosa.
Foreplay before the first night
They should not be rough and long, because petting causes a strong blood flow to the genitals. This means that when the penis penetrates, it will hurt later. To reduce the pain of defloration, do not have long love games. The blood flow to the girl's genitals also causes increased bleeding when the hymen ruptures, because it is densely permeated with small blood vessels.
In addition, long caresses before the first intercourse can greatly increase the girl's nervous excitability, and then the pain of rupturing the hymen will be stronger. The feeling of pain during defloration usually does not allow the girl to experience an orgasm, as it blocks the feeling of pleasure. Therefore, a man needs to be prepared for the fact that she will not experience an orgasm during defloration. But it is better to conduct foreplay gently, with an understanding of the delicate mental organization of the girl.
Correct posture for defloration
This is very important to minimize the pain of hymen rupture. You can use the so-called "missionary" position, in which the girl lies on her back, and her legs are spread towards her partner and bent at the knees. But it is important to prepare a small pillow, put it under the buttocks. Why this position and not another? How is it useful?
The thing is that in the usual position of lying on the back, only the upper part of the vaginal entrance is open, and when the penis penetrates, the clitoris may be damaged. In addition, straightened legs do not allow the partner to penetrate deeply. Therefore, the hymen in this position only stretches, and there is no way to tear it. In this case, both the girl and her partner suffer. In addition, the girl will defend herself from pain, push the partner away, shift her hips, and full sexual intercourse may not work out - the hymen may remain intact, but there will be a lot of pain.
If a pillow is placed under the girl's buttocks, the entrance to her vagina opens, and the hymen is stretched, and it is much easier to tear it - the pain will not be so long and strong. To further minimize pain, the knees during coitus (penetration of the phallus) should be pulled as close to the chest as possible. The hymen will be stretched at the very entrance to the vagina, and it will be much easier to tear it. To make it easier for the partner to do this, the partner should relax her muscles as much as possible and move towards the movement of the partner. This can reduce the time of rupture of the hymen to seconds. And therefore, the pain during defloration, too.
For a man, the ideal position for defloration is when he kneels between his partner's legs, which are spread apart. At this point, he will be able to hold her hips with his hands and fully control the situation, preventing his partner from moving away and hurting herself. Pain during defloration can be avoided if both partners do not act blindly, but follow our simple advice.