vaginal pain to the touch

I started dating my girlfriend for a month now, and there is something quite strange in her vaginal area that I have never come across before. she has massive pain all around and inside her vagina, the only spot where it seems there is no pain, is right on the upper most part of her clitoris. we recently had sex for the first time and it was painfull for her. Which I thought would be common since she told me she had not had sex in 2 years. But there is something else other than that. Even when I touch around her vagina with the gentalist touch she says there is awfull pain, I am sure there is some kind of description for this, but if anyone can point us in the right direction on what it may be, we would appreciate it.