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A mum-of-one has revealed how having her vagina laser tightened enhanced her sex life and made her "feel 18 again".

Nicole Francis, 32, says the results in the bedroom are worth every penny of the £495 she paid to undergo the treatment .

“When I had sex for the first time after I had it done, I genuinely felt like I was 18 again,” laughed the former model.

“Internally and externally, everything had shrunk back to how it used to be.

"It was really obvious how much of an improvement there was.”

Nicole is just one of a number of women in their twenties and thirties who are having their vaginas laser tightened at the same time as their faces.

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The laser treatment offers the chance to banish saggy intimate areas with a technique normally used to get rid of wrinkles and other signs of ageing.

Instead of plumping up cheeks, the laser stimulates collagen production inside and outside of the vagina. It gives the women a sex life-boosting lift.

Nicole, a beautician, has only one child - her five-year-old son, Reiss.

But despite this, she said she and many of her friends noticed a post-baby change in their love lives, with "things not as tight" as they used to be.

“It isn’t the sort of thing girls talk about all the time, but when you do it’s just part of life and most women feel the same," she said.

"It’s something we can all relate to so it isn’t embarrassing at all.

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"Especially if you’ve had a baby, or babies, you notice that things aren’t as tight as they used to be and that has an effect on how much you and your partner enjoy sex.

“Designer vaginas have been around for years but they mostly just tighten the outside and neaten it up a bit, and I’d be worried that could do more damage than good, whereas this concentrates on the inside.”

Each non-surgical vaginal laser treatment takes around 10-15 minutes.

Nicole, who lives in Crosby near Liverpool, insists the procedure was no more painful than having a smear test.

“The machine is actually quite similar to look at, and it’s basically a metal tube so it feels pretty much the same when it’s being used," she said.

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"They insert the laser, it fires light beams in a circular motion into the vaginal wall and then it’s slowly moved towards the outside.

"You feel some warmth but it’s not painful, maybe just a little bit uncomfortable, but not enough to outweigh the benefits.”

Emma Soos, clinical director for Nu-V, says the treatment is designed to give women effective relief from common problems associated with vaginal looseness, including reduced sexual pleasure, dryness and stress-related incontinence.

The main risk is from infection so patients are advised not to have sex for five days or use perfumed products around the area for seven days afterwards.

The treatment works by causing mild trauma, stimulating collagen production to regenerate and rebuild tissue, resulting in a tightening.

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“So it’s no different really to having saggy loose skin on your face treated,” said Nicole. “Actually our faces don’t go through half as much trauma as that part of us, but everyone I know takes far more care of them.

“I think lots of women like me, in their 20s and 30s, have got into a regime of having their faces rejuvenated and procedures for firming up their bodies, but we can neglect that part of ourselves which obviously goes through quite a bit of wear and tear especially in childbirth.”

Nicole said it wasn’t just the prospect of better orgasms which prompted her to go for the Nu-V treatment at celebrity favourite, Lip Couture in Crosby, one of the first in the country to offer the procedure.

It is promoted as beneficial for tackling post-baby incontinence, too.

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“I thought I was fine but then I went to one of the trampoline centres with my little lad and, as I was doing deep bounces, I could feel it going," Nicole said.

"It was then I realised there was definitely a bit of a problem there."

The mum isn’t planning to have more than one treatment, although it is possible to have up to three over a 12-month period.

“I think it wears off at different rates for different women,” she said. “It’s like having Botox, some people’s last three months and for others it might be six.

"I think it probably depends how bad the damage is to start with and how much of a high traffic area it is!”