Three sets of muscles-There are the muscles which control the exit from the bladder, those which control the exit from the bowels, and those which control the walls of your vagina (the front passage or birth canal). Possibly these are muscles you never knew you had. If you imagine that you desperately need to spend a penny and there isn’t a loo for miles, so you have to hold on to it, then the muscles you are pulling in are the muscles of your pelvic floor. You are keeping the muscles all round the exit from your bladder very tight. At the same time you are also tightening the muscles in your vagina. Do this several times so you can recognize where they are and actually feel them tightening.

Once you have felt where they are, breathe in and deliberately tighten them, pulling them in and up as though you were going up in a lift, to the third and then the fourth floor. Can you get up to the fifth? Now blow out those three candles and let the lift fall gradually down into the basement. However, if you have had a baby it’s a good idea to move back up to the ground floor! A little tone in these muscles is a good antidote to the condition known as prolapse (the womb dropping into a lower position than is comfortable).

Some women learn such control over these muscles that they can sit astride a bath of water and ‘suck’ the water into their bodies simply by contracting their muscles and then let it fall back into the bath again simply by relaxing them. It’s more fun to use these muscles when you’re making love. It can have an electrifying effect on the man in your life, particularly if you choose your moment well.

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