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If your hymen was broken during a pap smear, will sex hurt?

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Not related: Why did you have a pap smear if you are not sexually active? Break in hymen during pap smear and painful sex are not related to each other. Using a lubricant for sex may lessen discomfort.

Answered 6/20/2013

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