Today's op-ed in the New York Times , Postpartum Impression, discussed the little-talked about practice of vaginal strengthening after childbirth. It helps tighten the muscles for all sorts of reasons: pelvic health, preventing incontinence and, of course, pleasure! The author, Pamela Druckerman, used the practice as an example to point out that in France this type of thing is subsidized, while it is not in the United States.
Insurance and health-care debates aside, I am left wondering why such a simple and cheap procedure is not even discussed much here by health care practitioners? Our Puritanism astounds me again and again, especially when it is ostensibly a procedure from which men have much to gain.
From what I can tell the procedure can be done at home. It involves a whole lot of squeezing down on a wand (which most women probably already own, albeit with a different name.) One French web site sells oeufs de jade (jade eggs) for home-practice; an American site sells a medical-looking wand with a digital meter and then there is the Kegelmaster, a slightly pre-historic dildo type thing. (CN)
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