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Me and My Menopausal Vagina – Jane Lewis on Vaginal Atrophy

| June 25, 2020

Can’t walk, can’t sit, can’t have sex – welcome to the debilitating world of vaginal atrophy. Author Jane Lewis knows it well and explains what it is and how you can get through it. Our Vaginas go through a lot – childbirth, periods, infections… but with menopause you’d finally start to think they were going to get a break – but hell no! In the lead up to menopause (when our periods finish), and beyond it, our oestrogen levels decline and our vaginas start to ‘atrophy’. What that means is the vagina shortens and the walls become thinner and less…

12 things you should never put in your vagina

| October 18, 2017

Many products are advertised to decorate, cleanse, tighten or detox vagina but could they do more harm than good? Vaginas are getting a lot of attention. We’re being told they need to be rejuvenated, cleansed, detoxed and be-jazzled, and there is a multitude of mixtures, recipes and products claiming to do all those things. A quick run through social media turns up ads for vagina sticks, perfumed or herbal suppositories and douches, glittery “passion dust” and even a ground up wasp nest powder are just a few of the things people are putting in that other place where the sun…