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How to Make an Old Vagina Young Again

Hormone replacement therapy may be your solution

Elle Silver
In Vain Asylum
6 min readDec 27, 2024

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Photo by Kindel Media.

I always knew I’d get old at some point. I watched my grandmother get old and then my mother. Their skin wrinkled and their hair grayed and they developed different health issues.

I knew this would happen to me too someday, just as I knew someday I would die.

I would also develop wrinkles, gain weight where I didn’t want to, become gray and then white-haired, and maybe also begin to stoop over like some old ladies do.

Maybe I’d even start using a cane or a walker to help me get around, or a wheelchair like my grandmother ultimately had to.

I’d develop arthritis as she did, my fingers and toes gnarling into permanently distorted shapes.

But I had no idea what it would feel like to experience any of this, only that it would happen eventually, and I couldn’t stop it.

One thing I never imagined happening to me, though, was that my vagina would also grow old.

I thought sex would always be pleasurable

I believed my vagina would stay the same throughout all the years of my life. Supple, juicy, fully capable of arousal and orgasm.

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In Vain Asylum
In Vain Asylum

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Stories about sexuality, relationships, and motherhood.

Elle Silver
Elle Silver

Written by Elle Silver

"Skinny fat" writer on a journey to reclaim my health. I write personal essays about relationships, beauty, and the messy process of figuring it all out.

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