A number of experts have spoken out on the practice, explaining that it poses some serious risks.
Dr Jen Gunter – gynaecologist, obstetrician and author of The Vagina Bible – told Refinery29 that women should "never, ever have their vagina scraped".
She said: "Any scraping of the vaginal epithelium [tissue] could affect the vaginal ecosystem and theoretically could spread HPV locally and would increase a woman's vulnerability to infection.
"Your vaginal epithelium completely regenerates itself every 96 hours. The surface cells are shed every four hours.
"If you want to remove physical residue of some horrible man's penis, your vagina has you covered."
It was revealed last month that Mel B had undergone a vaginal procedure to remove "all remnants" of her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte.
Responding to reports that she'd undergone vaginal rejuvenation surgery, she told The Guardian: "They scraped the inside of my vagina and put new tissue in.
"It's almost like a rape victim would do – essentially, you want to scrub yourself clean."
The Spice Girl later clarified her comments on Jessie Ware's podcast Table Manners, explaining: "What I did was a bit like, and I say this very candily but it's actually very important, a bit like a rape victim.
"When you've been raped, you wanna scrub any remnants off your body, inside outside, of that person, so you can just erase it.
"I went to Dr Matlock and I said, I don't want to feel like the last person that was inside my vagina was this monster.
"He examined me, he said: 'Legally there's nothing I can do about that because you don't need anything done.'
"I said could he just go in there and get everything out, but then pack it with fresh tissue."
The US Food and Drug Administration issued a health warning against laser vaginal rejuvenation in July.
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