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How to Have Great Sex When Your Back Hurts

By Jan Steckel • Feb 7th, 2007 • Category: Sex and Disability

In a running joke in Lawrence Sterne’s bawdy eighteenth-century novel Tristram Shandy, the title character tries to figure out when he was conceived based on when his father was afflicted with “the sciatica” and thus unable to have sexual intercourse. (The reader realizes Tristram’s father must have been cuckolded.)
Even today, low back pain and sciatica [...]