Anatomy

Not all people with vaginas bleed with first intercourse. Given your age at the time of your first intercourse, it would have been even less common for you to do so since by 26, it would have been more common for most of your hymen to have mostly eroded by then – simply due to basic development…

Assuming that it’s definitely not menstrual blood, whenever a person with a vagina bleeds after sex, it’s generally the result of an injury. Sometimes if there’s blood spotting and pain after sex, it’s because there’s an infection in the cervix like trichomoniasis, chlamydia or gonorrhea. Irritation…

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…

You don’t have an unusually small penis: you have an average sized penis. On average, the penis is between five and six inches in length, and four inches and five and a half in girth. See? Average. As well, weight loss doesn’t impact penis size. The penis can look larger with eight loss simply due…

I’m so sorry you’re having to go through this, confused. You know, most of what many people think about virginity just isn’t accurate. And really, in so many ways, most ideas about virginity, and dynamics of virginity are sexist, have done a lot of women real harm through history and are…well…

There isn’t a “cherry” (or an apricot, prune, or any other type of produce) inside a vagina. When people talk about “popping cherries,” it generally tends to mean a) someone is doing something for the first time, or b) someone’s hymen has popped. Thing is, the hymen, when it is present or partially…

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…

Hey, Monica! You know, weird feelings after sexual activities of all sorts are something that is reported pretty frequently by folks. There could be a couple of reasons for this. First of all, when we’re sexually active, we tend to become more aware of our bodies than we were before. Normal gas or…

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…

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…