vagina

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  • Heather Corinna

Sounds to me like you could use some good, old-fashioned vulva reclaiming. And it's so not just you that does, I swear. Let's start by tossing out terms like "va-jay-jay." Seriously, when television writers -- on a medical show, of all things -- have to be cute about it you know we're living in a...

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  • Heather Corinna

You know, KY is really one of the lower quality lubricants out there. If you're using the jelly, it really isn't going to help much, but even their liquid lubes aren't as good as a lot of others in my opinion. An excellent lubricant is not only as good as "natural" lubricant, sometimes it's even...

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  • Heather Corinna

LUBRICANT! Lubricant, lubricant, lubricant! (Sorry, I just had to stand up and shout that. There was also a song and dance number involved, which is why I had to repeat it a few times, but you obviously could not have seen my little lube dance from your side of the screen. Consider yourself very...

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  • Sarah Riley

To paraphrase a certain bumper sticker, " Discharge happens." Seriously, it does. Every person with a vagina in the world has discharge. It's just one of those things that you get when you've got a vagina. Discharge plays a very important role in both your vaginal health and in fertility. It serves...

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  • Heather Corinna

Before I say anything else, understand that you've got nothing to be scared about here, okay? You also don't need to feel embarrassed about not knowing this stuff: not only do plenty of adult women not know either, it's certainly not your fault that no one has given you thorough sex education or...

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  • Susie Tang

No, panty crust is a normal result of vaginal discharge. Normally, it's just cervical mucus. If she has an infection, it may contain other things (like pus). Cervical mucus -- like all mucus -- dries out to a solid; there's not much of it left compared to its original volume since mucus is mostly...

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  • Heather Corinna

ANY direct genital contact that is unprotected ALWAYS puts you at a potential risk of pregnancy (when your partner has the genitals that could co-create one) and sexually transmitted infections. The vulva is a wet place, and sexual fluids like ejaculate and pre-ejaculate are also just that, fluid...

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  • Heather Corinna

When you don't know the answer to something or can't find it, it's never, ever stupid to ask a question. What would be stupid is NOT to ask! Too, women -- and plenty of people of other genders -- are very often taught little to nothing about their sexual response systems and cycles, so not knowing...

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  • Sarah Riley

Let's toss out the idea of being "tight" because you haven't done anything with anybody else. Sex of any sort (manual sex, intercourse, or whatever else) doesn't permanently change the dimensions of one's vagina. So thinking that people who haven't engaged in vaginal or manual sex are tighter than...

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  • Heather Corinna

If we're going to think of our genitals as big, any one of us, given the small range between them, we should think everyone's genitals are big. We also need to accept that it's ignorant or misinformed to think, presume or suggest that penises are big but vaginas are small, because we really are all about the same size. If thinking big is better for one sex, it's also got to be better for the other. So, if you or someone else is going to go on about some big penis, you'd best get just as excited about the idea of a big vagina, and make having a big ol'Vagowski just as cool. And if you're all hung up on the idea that the vagina be as small as it can possibly be, or is such a small thing, then you've got to accept that penises are small, too.