Coital Back Pain
It’s a great Friday evening as you enjoy the prospects of waking up at 9am tomorrow. You have just dropped the kids kwagogo*, and you and the madam have the house to yourselves. From the look of things you might get lucky too, & nothing could go wrong. Fast forward to later in the night, you are in the act, feeling like superman. All of a sudden someone hits your back with a treated gumtreepole. You fall on your side in excruciating pain. You feel it even in your eyelashes as you try to make sense of what has just happened. It turns out there is no intruder, and no gum pole, it’sjust your back attacking you. You realise that the sex can no longer continue as you can barely move anymore, it seems like superman has just turned 90. So you ask “mai mwana”to bring the heat rub to help you out of your misery. You and many other men are going through this problem. In fact, it is so serious and common that there are now practitioners who specialise in “mushonga wemusana”(back painmedicine). Even worse is that this problem is treated as a status symbol amongst some men. In other words, you are an alpha male when you can have uninterrupted sex and please your partner.Meanwhile, you are weak and unworthy when your back is not strong enoughenough for intercourse. However, you can rest assured that lower back pain is a common problem during sex. This tends to be due to an over-tight back muscle. It actually helps to do a few lower back stretches before commencing sex. This is because muscles are like elastic bands, they perform better when they are stretchy! It also helps to keep active at all times because muscles that sit for nine hours at a desk will not perform well under the sheets. You need to look after your back and keep fit and healthy. Ifyou suffer from this problem regularly, you need to get your back checked by your doctor and get a proper diagnosis so that you can start addressing it fully and stop it from happening at all. Man Tip-Too embarrassed to let your partner see you stretching before sex? Try doing it in the bathroom where she won’t see you.Kwagogo*-At grandmas
