Sexual healing: How to get your mojo back around menopause

Davina McCall says her libido was so low before taking HRT that she ‘didn’t even fancy Brad Pitt’. Besides hormone replacement, experts say simple lifestyle changes can help women recover their desire

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Two things can happen to sex when you reach menopause — you either stop wanting it, or it hurts when you do. 

Neither situation is ideal for anyone involved. Until the great Menopause Revolution of 2021 hit Ireland and Britain, thanks to Channel 4’s documentary presented by Davina McCall and the women who queued up to discuss the devastating impact of menopause on RTÉ’s Liveline, many of us didn’t know how to address vanishing libido and painful sex.