Beauty begins with a 'V'

Most women don’t realize that Beauty actually begins with a “V.” And it goes from the roots of their hair, to the tips of their toes, to the depths of their vagina.

The vagina has ceased to be just a sexual and reproductive organ — it has become an expression and a source of a woman’s total beauty.

“After all, no one wants to worship in a big cathedral,” quips a popular socialite, who asked not to be named. After all, how good is to be flawlessly tight on the outside, and flabby where it also counts — on the inside.

That is why there are doctors like Beverly Hills 6750’s Dr. Abe Marinduque, who pioneered Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation in the Philippines.

“This is an aesthetic procedure that enhances the appearance of the outside of the vagina,” says the US-trained Dr. Abe. Dr. Abe trained in LA under Dr. Mat Lock, the leading vaginal surgeon and cosmetic gynecologist in the world.

He shows us a picture, which isn’t very flattering to a woman. “This is how it looks before the surgery and you see the labia minora, which is the inner lip of the vagina. And you see it’s like flapping around. What I only had to do is excise it, trim it with a laser and this is how it looks right after the surgery. And six weeks after, this is how it looks.” The change, from a superficial point of view, is amazing.

“It looks like an 18-year-old vagina,” points out Dr. Abe, who performs the procedure right at the Beverly Hills Clinic at 6750 Ayala Avenue.

Having a flabby labia minora could also get in the way of sexual pleasure, “because kung lumalaylay yan, if it gets wide, it gets inside the vagina and it can cause pain during penetration.”

The causes could be congenital, childbirth or simply wear and tear. “It’s an easy problem but all you have to do is really excise it with a laser to make it look like you’re an 18-year-old,” says Dr. Abe.

Dr. Abe also performs procedures to tighten the vaginal canal, not just the labia minora or the inner lip of the vagina, to make intercourse more gratifying.

“It’s the tube now that I’m going to tighten so that the woman will have enhanced sexual gratification. This procedure is done so that a woman will have enhanced sexual gratification. I use the laser like a knife. There’s some trimming, there’s some cutting of tissues, but with the laser, it’s bloodless. So the healing process is better.”

Patients are able to resume sex in six weeks as long as they don’t overdo it “because when you overuse it, it rips off again. “

Dr. Abe also performs hymenoplasty, which is the complete restoration of the hymen. “I reconstruct the hymen to make a woman a virgin again. There are remnants of the hymen where all you have to do is sew them back together.”

And who would want their hymen put back together?

“Well, a lot of women. It’s very popular in the United States among Arabian women. You know they have to go back to the Middle East and they have to be virgins. The Chinese women also. Some women also offer it as a gift to their new partners.” Apparently, some men find bleeding on their first night of relations sacred, and bleeding, says Dr. Abe, is the one sign that a hymenoplasty is successful.

Aside from specializing on the “V”, Dr. Abe also specializes on the “G” — G-spot, that is. “Let me tell you that in women, there are two types in which they can orgasm. Most commonly, women look at the clitoris as the main source of orgasm. What a lot of women don’t realize is they can also orgasm from vaginal intercourse without touching the clitoris at all. They can get their G-spot stimulated to achieve this orgasm. Now the G-spot is about two inches away from the entry of the vagina, in the anterior wall, near the bladder. And what happens is if it’s properly stimulated, it can bring about orgasm, even multiple orgasms. When I say proper stimulation, that means you really have to apply pressure on the area. Unlike the clitoris, which needs gentle pressure to get stimulated, the G-spot needs to have really firm pressure.”

Beverly Hills 6750 offers the “G-shot.”

“A G-shot is a filler. I use a collagen protein and I inject at the G-spot with about 1.5 cc to 1.5 ml of protein in the area where the G-spot is and this enlarges the area. So it becomes more sensitive and also it becomes more accessible for the woman and the man to stimulate,” explains Dr. Abe.

He applies the shot directly on a woman’s G-spot, which he tells her to locate before she comes in for the procedure.

“She can ask her partner to look for it for her or she can look for it herself. It’s really easy. What the woman has to do is she has to feel herself because the first sensation that she will feel when she begins stimulating that area is she will feel like she wants to pee. You could mistake that sensation of wanting to pee as a signal of a full bladder instead of stimulation in your G-spot. So if your bladder is empty and you stimulate that area and you still feel you want to pee, then you’re probably hitting your G-spot. And if you continue stimulating that G-spot, it becomes more pleasurable and you will feel some enlargement.”

So why are these procedures being performed in a clinic that promotes beauty?

“I’m trying to boost the woman’s confidence by boosting her sexuality. Sex boosts one’s immunity and thus improves one’s wellbeing. There’s something that happens to a woman’s immunity when she has a pleasurable sexual relationship,” Dr. Abe points out. “I can say that sex can cure a lot of ailments and anxieties and kill depression and irritability.”

And now hear this: “The sexual activity of women is actually an indirect gauge of how women are doing in terms of their health.”

So who says beauty is just skin-deep?  — Joanne Rae Ramirez

(For more information, please get in touch with Dr. Abe Marinduque at 893-6750)