More and more women are turning to doctors and plastic surgeons to improve their intimate life. Can modern medicine affect how you feel during sex? And what are the most effective methods for this?
For various reasons, it is not customary to talk about intimate rehabilitation. It is difficult for a woman with problems in the genital area to contact a gynecologist with such questions. These doctors are often not prepared to discuss the intimate life of the patient. Meanwhile, according to statistics, 20% of women experience discomfort during intercourse, and only 13% of them go to the doctor with this problem.
Most often, women go to sexologists, cosmetologists and plastic surgeons. Those, in turn, offer many techniques that promise to return the joy of sex, but not all of them really work.
About intimate plastic
Intimate plastic surgery is only one of the methods of intimate rehabilitation, and by no means the most important one. She can not always change her sex life for the better. According to statistics, the most popular manipulation is the operation to correct the labia minora. And it is noteworthy that in 60% of cases, patients have no medical indications for it.
Not only mature women apply for correction, but also very young ones. A common situation: a girl comes to a plastic surgeon with a request to reduce the labia minora so that they are covered with large ones. Why did she start to think that her genitals didn’t meet the standards of beauty? Most often, a woman is pushed to such a decision by her sexual partner, who, in turn, is guided by adult films or porn magazines.
The operation will help to overcome the complexes, but it cannot significantly affect the sensations during intercourse
It turns out that the fashion for intimate plasticity is dictated by films for adults. And women who are physiologically all right take risks, trying to follow trends and please their partner. But a poorly performed operation may not improve, but worsen intimate life. Scars on the labia minora can pull and hurt during sex, burst during childbirth.
Before contacting a surgeon, you should talk to a gynecologist who sees dozens of female genital organs every day, or read medical literature to find out what parameters are the norm for a healthy woman. Perhaps the operation will help to overcome the complexes and become liberated in bed, but it cannot significantly affect the sensations during intercourse. After all, fashion comes and goes, and so do sexual partners.
About intimate rejuvenation
Despite the word “rejuvenation” in the name of this technique, it is not mature women who turn to it more often, but young girls – usually after the first birth. It was during this period that most first encountered the problem of sexual dysfunction. Again, it is not customary to talk about this, but the intimate life of a woman after the birth of a child often turns into a tragedy. This is influenced by many factors: sexual abstinence before and after childbirth, the hormone prolactin produced during breastfeeding, fatigue due to the baby, etc. The tissues of the vagina are not properly hydrated and sex is uncomfortable.
Lasers for facial and body skin rejuvenation are useless when working with mucous membranes
In such cases, laser exposure can help. But again, not everything is so simple. Only the Italian Monalisa Touch laser has a proven medical effect on the mucous membrane. It makes the mucous membrane denser and more hydrated, which normalizes the flora of the vagina and restores the brightness of sexual relations.
The problem is that many clinics and beauty salons that have lasers for facial and body skin rejuvenation are starting to use them for intimate rehabilitation. However, such devices for working with skin in the intimate sphere are useless: skin and mucous membranes are completely different things. At best, an ordinary laser will not work in any way, and you don’t even want to think about the worst.
About biofeedback therapy
Biofeedback therapy (bos therapy) is the most effective and important of all methods of intimate rehabilitation, because only it gives the effect of narrowing the vagina. It is noteworthy that in France, the Netherlands and Germany, each young mother receives several such procedures for insurance. Boss therapy is essentially a pelvic floor exercise. Everyone has heard of Kegel exercises, but few know how to do them correctly. And boss therapy just teaches a woman to control her muscles.
It happens like this: an electromyographic sensor is inserted into the vagina, which captures the electrical component of the contraction of the pelvic floor muscles. A similar sensor is installed on the woman’s stomach or buttocks. The doctor (bos therapy trainer) gives commands, and the woman sees two curves on the screen, which draw both electrodes. Gradually, observing the dynamics, she learns to reduce what is necessary and not to reduce what is not necessary.
Two or three months of such training, and sex life goes to a qualitatively different level. Intimate muscles need to be trained in the same way as they train the press, shake their arms or buttocks. Plastic, injections or laser can give a positive result, but it is not comparable with the effect of Boss therapy.
About the author: Elena Sergeevna Silantyeva is a doctor of medical sciences in the specialties: obstetrics and gynecology, restorative medicine, physiotherapy, balneology and sports medicine.