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The risk of sphincter injury and fecal incontinence associated with anal intercourse, particularly in women due to anatomical and life-course factors.
can be therapeutic but carries real risks; the immediate warning signs of injury are sharp or tearing pain, more-than-minor bleeding, and visible tears or bruising around the anus (reported across cli...
has multiple, well-documented causes: mechanical tears to the sphincter muscles (most often from ), iatrogenic injury during , direct pelvic or rectal trauma, and nerve injury—especially to the —which...
A small but consistent body of clinical case reports and physiological studies establishes biological plausibility that receptive anal intercourse (RAI) can injure the anal sphincter, yet population-l...