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I used tampons and smaller toys down there prior to having sexual intercourse for the first time, but there was still horrendous pain involved once a penis came into the picture. I highly doubt all of that pain was caused by vaginisimus, given that I had (and have) no hangups about sex, and our subsequent experiences were much better. Theoretically, one could try to break their own hymen, but there is no guarantee of success, obviously. And the breaking of the hymen is different for all women--in some women, it isn't a painful experience.
And your idea that women rarely looked at other women's vaginas until the first wave of the feminist movement fails to take into account that until the medicalization of birthing in the developed world, most women were examined and cared for by midwives. It only became the territory of the male doctor in the Victorian era.
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