I had a postmenopausal girlfriend some years ago. She used to come and stay with me sometimes. There was a serious issue with her vagina.
The main problem was getting in the damned thing, as she was past menopause, and the damn thing was locked down tighter than a barn door. Eventually some lube got me right in.
Then I pulled out and my finger was covered with this very weird dried blood. My girlfriend shrugged her shoulders as if this was nothing to be alarmed by. I guess as a woman you get used to dealing with blood from your body regularly?
This is the sort of bullshit you can deal with when you have sex with postmenopausal women. They all need to go on estrogen for maximum of five years. After that they need to get this estrogen string that’s inserted in their cervices which supplies estrogen locally to the vagina.
Nevertheless, a lot of women this age refuse to use this string. If they are having the issues described below, I don’t see why they wouldn’t use it. Perhaps they are i…
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