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  • | Caroline Knight

    How Do I Relax My Kegel Muscles? 4 Surprising Solutions

    We recently wrote an article about tight pelvic floor muscles, which is a problem affecting women of all ages, and for various reasons. You may have come across the words ‘kegel muscles’ and ‘pelvic floor muscles’ but they’re actually the same thing. So when you hear about kegel exercises, that’s... View Post
  • | Caroline Knight

    How Do You Relax Your Pelvic Floor Muscles?

    There is a lot of talk out there about strengthening pelvic floor muscles (kegel exercises), and with good reason. Many women have issues due to loose pelvic floor muscles, but there are also plenty of women struggling with a tight pelvic floor too. In fact, it’s possible for the pelvic floor to ... View Post
  • | Jacob Komarow

    What are posterior fourchette fissures and how can you treat them?

    Due to the complexity of the human body and each of its organs, there are many possibilities for things to ‘go wrong’. This may happen because of injury, toxicity, dysfunction stemming from other influences… the list is long! This certainly applies to the vagina. It comprises so many delicate parts and even has its own mini ecosystem, which can be upset by the smallest of lifestyle changes. 

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  • | Tara Langdale

    How to "Loosen a Girl Without Hurting Her"?

    First things first: it’s a great thing that you’re looking for this information on how to help loosen up your partner. Sex should be a mutually pleasurable experience, but for that to happen, awareness and effort is required from both partners. The fact that you’re seeking advice on how t... View Post
  • | Caroline Knight

    How Do I Know if My Hymen is Torn or Broken?

    What's going on? Although the idea of a torn hymen is associated with loss of virginity (after sexual intercourse), this is far from the only way to stretch or tear your hymen. In fact, it is very common for females to tear their hymens inadvertently, through physical exercise such as cycl... View Post
  • | Brett Farrow

    Postpartum Dyspareunia: What is it and how do you fix it?

      Postpartum dyspareunia is the term for painful sex after childbirth. We all know that childbirth is no walk in the park, but it doesn’t seem that painful sex after childbirth is given much consideration. Obviously the idea wouldn’t stop you from becoming a mother, but it might surprise you to k... View Post
  • | Caroline Knight

    Are Kegel Exercises Good For Vaginismus?

    Vaginismus is a testing condition to say the least. Fear of penetration is the cause of the physical symptoms associated with vaginismus, but it’s not something you can simply rationalize away. When any attempt at penetration is made (whether for sexual or medical reasons), women with vaginismus ... View Post
  • | Caroline Knight

    How Can I Relax My Pelvic Muscles?

      A tight pelvic floor (otherwise known as a hypertonic pelvic floor) is a very real problem afflicting modern women for a myriad reasons. There are a number of symptoms of a tight pelvic floor. For instance, you may find that you’ve got persistent pain in the pelvic area or coccyx, you need to p... View Post

VuVa Podcast

Tara Langdale-Schmidt is no stranger to pain. After all, she endured 11 surgeries for endometriosis starting at a young age. But when sex became impossible for her and her then-fiancé, and doctors were flummoxed, Langdale-Schmidt knew she had to take matters into her own hands. Her mother’s treatment for fibromyalgia sparked an idea when Langdale-Schmidt was finally diagnosed with vulvodynia, a painful condition involving the vulva, and magnetic dilators shaped like a vibrator were the answer to her prayers. Find out how she tested her product and took it to market on this episode of SheVentures.