Research on sex, female sexual satisfaction and feelings about sex after a hysterectomy is sketchy, often carried out by men with poor questions and an assumption that sex is penetrative and heterosexual. But there is some half decent research which we can use, along with mental health and sexual satisfaction research to piece together what is going on for women after a hysterectomy. What the lived experience is, what the concerns are and importantly what happens physically.

This discussion puts getting back to sex in context of female sexuality and satisfaction, when it's safe physically with healing considerations and who might be more likely tor report poor sexual outcomes and what they an do about it.