For some women, the magical cure-all treatment known as BOTOX has just added another trick to its seemingly bottomless bag. Recently, researchers have been evaluating ways to use BOTOX to alleviate painful conditions affecting a woman’s vagina which make having sex unbearable.
These conditions, primarily consisting of muscle contractions and burning sensations, affect approximately 6% of women across the world. It is a reflex reaction that occurs during sexual penetration, causing vaginal muscles to spasm and making sex extremely painful. According to researchers, these issues are most often caused by fear stemming from a rough childhood or sexual abuse. For most women afflicted by these spasms, it is uncontrollable and involuntary.
Unfortunately, I was not able to find any explanation as to why BOTOX is so helpful in alleviating this condition. However, I would imagine that the anti-wrinkle wonder drug, which also has been used to treat migraines, armpit sweating, and a host of other afflictions, is acting similarly on the vagina as it does on your facial wrinkles.
When you shoot your face full of BOTOX to turn back the clock on aging, you are essentially paralyzing your facial muscles so that they cannot make the contractions that result in wrinkles. I would imagine that in a similar manner, BOTOX is able to paralyze the vaginal muscles so that they will no longer contract when a woman is about to have sex. In this way, she can avoid the painful spasms which have prevented her from enjoying intercourse throughout her life.
It would be interesting to find out if this is a temporary fix or a long term solution to the problem. In other words, will these women need to continue getting BOTOX injections for the rest of their lives in order to avoid these painful spasms which make sex unbearable, or will these involuntary contractions eventually stop occurring once these women are able to experience the joys of an orgasm a few times?
Regardless, it seems like for once, BOTOX is actually being used for a cause that is not silly and frivolous. It’s about time.
