Italian urologist Dr. Maria Cerruto discovered that high heels can have a positive impact on a woman's sex life.

"I love high-heeled shoes and wanted to find something positive about them," says Dr. Cerruto from the University of Verona. "In the end, I achieved my goal."

Heels influence and train the pelvic muscles, reducing the need to train them separately. It's also plausible that wearing high heels in everyday life may make additional pelvic floor exercises unnecessary, helping keep a woman’s vagina firm and elastic naturally.

The study involved 66 women under the age of 50. Dr. Cerruto found that women who held their feet at a 15-degree angle to the ground — equivalent to about a 5 cm heel — showed up to 15 percent less electrical activity in their feet. This suggests that the muscles are more relaxed when wearing higher heels, which enhances their strength and ability to contract. Dr. Cerruto added that women often struggle to find the right exercises for the pelvic area, and wearing high heels might just be the solution.

"Like many women, I enjoy wearing high heels, and although they’re sometimes uncomfortable, I continue to wear them to appear slimmer and taller. It's also nice to know that high heels may offer potential health benefits."

An official guide to better sex, provided by the UK’s NHS Direct, encourages women to become more aware of their pelvic floor muscles and offers advice on how to train them to enhance sexual arousal.

NHS Direct recommends that women, especially shortly after pregnancy, perform pelvic floor exercises up to five times a day.

Manolo Blahnik, the shoe designer known for his sky-high heels, commented on Dr. Cerruto’s research findings, calling them “wonderful news” for the industry.

“For years, I was criticized for how bad such high heels supposedly were for posture, but I always found that contradictory.

Until she was 87, my mother wore high heels — and she looked beautiful in them. She was my living proof that high heels are good for almost every woman.”

“Wearing high heels makes life more exciting.”

“In the 1980s it was all about bold expression, but today, other aspects matter — it’s about elegance.”

“If you’re a woman, high heels give you the power to address men with them, just as much as to attract them.”

“And it actually works. I’ve met men who told me that high heels saved their marriage.”

“But I do think there’s a limit. Anything over 11 cm is simply too high. You can’t walk properly in such heels — and that has nothing to do with elegance anymore.”

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