DR GINNI MANSBERG: This is everything you need to know about sex in your fifties (and no, it doesn't have to be awful) It is perhaps the most common complaint doctors hear from women going through 'the change': sex, once one of life's great pleasures, has become too painful to enjoy.
She explained pain during sex and low libido are the two most common reasons women 'shut up shop' later in life - to the disappointment of their husbands who often aren't ready to throw in the towel just yet.
Dr Mansberg, an expert on perimenopause and star of TV's Embarrassing Bodies Down Under, has helped thousands of women get through the sometimes unbearable symptoms which come with that stage of life.
But sexual activity during perimenopause - the transitional period to menopause - and after periods stop altogether, doesn't have to be an uncomfortable experience, says celebrity GP Dr Ginni Mansberg.
The first issue, painful sex, is usually due to vaginal dryness and will impact 80 per cent of women by the age of 60.
