YOGYAKARTA – Lubricants are used to assist penetration. When Miss V is slightly dry, lubricants help you and your partner's sex session to be painless. Saliva or saliva is often used at unexpected times, especially when there is no lubricant but the desire suddenly rises. Saliva, according to Felice Gersh, MD., author of PCOS SOS: A Gynecologist's Lifeline to Naturally Restore Your Rhythms, Hormones, and Happiness, is not designed to lubricate the vagina. The reason is, there are risks that must be borne when doing so. Reported by Health, here are the reasons why you should avoid using saliva for penetrating lubricant. 1. Sexually transmitted infections can be spread through salivaAny contagious infection in the throat or mouth can be passed to the genitals through saliva, explains Gersh. For example, if your partner has active herpes lesions, if he uses his saliva to be more slippery when penetrating, it can actually make you get genital herpes. Although the mouth does not look injured, the virus can still be transmitted. Because herpes is not only with blisters or sores but can also appear without symptoms. So it is necessary to consider cleanliness and sterility when performing oral sex. Oral sex can invite the risk of gonorrhea, chlamydia, HPV, syphilis, and trichomoniasis through saliva. Like herpes, the infection may not have any symptoms. 2. Causes vaginal infectionsIn the vagina, there are bacteria that are useful for maintaining the pH balance. But the bacteria in the vagina is different from the bacteria in saliva. Saliva also contains digestive enzymes that function to break down food. When these enzymes enter the vagina, their results can disrupt your vaginal microbiome. This makes you prone to yeast infections or bacterial vaginosis. This annoying infection can actually be cured. Gersh's message, changing the vaginal ecosystem can trigger an unexpected 'storm'. 3. Make vaginal skin hurtInstead of being slippery and receptive to pleasant genital stimulation, painful friction can allow harmful microbes to enter the body. Saliva has an innate quality that makes it a good lubricant for the mouth. But it does not have a slippery consistency, because it evaporates easily and makes the vagina dry quickly. According to Gersh, consider providing a water-based lubricant in addition to saliva to reduce the risk of infection and injury. The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, French, and Spanish versions are automatically generated by the system. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id) So you’re easing into a sex session with your partner and even though you’re totally up for it, things are a little dry down below. (Hey, it happens.) You don’t have any lubricant on hand, so you work up a little spit and use it as your makeshift lube. Or you have your partner go down on you and use their saliva as a substitute when it’s time for penetration. Not a big deal, right? Actually, spit just might be dangerous. “When they don’t have lube on hand, I’ve had patients tell me that they use saliva,” Felice Gersh, MD, author of PCOS SOS: A Gynecologist’s Lifeline to Naturally Restore Your Rhythms, Hormones, and Happiness, tells Health. Saliva may seem like a harmless swap for your own natural lubrication or the store-bought kind—it’s always available and free, after all. But your vagina will thank you for not resorting to it for three important reasons. STIs can be spread through saliva“Any STI in the throat or mouth can be transmitted to the genitals through saliva,” explains Dr. Gersh. In other words, if your partner has an active herpes lesion for example, using their spit to make things slick could leave you with genital herpes. This scenario happens more than you might think—and it’s the most common way genital herpes is contracted, she says. Even if you don’t see a cold sore on or around their mouth, the virus can still be transmissible. “Herpes can present with blisters or sores, but it can also present asymptomatically,” she explains. Lubrication, especially vaginal lubrication is an important part of sexual arousal. It readies the vagina for penetration and reduces any accompanying friction or irritation. In this regard, a medical expert has warned against the practice of using saliva as a lubricant during sex. Dr Kolade Johnson who works in a private hospital told the News Agency… Medical expert warns against using saliva as a lubricant during sex. | Image: Healthy Couple Lubrication, especially vaginal lubrication is an important part of sexual arousal. It readies the vagina for penetration and reduces any accompanying friction or irritation. In this regard, a medical expert has warned against the practice of using saliva as a lubricant during sex. Dr Kolade Johnson who works in a private hospital told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Ilorin that if anyone with a mouth sore use saliva as a lubricant, the partner would be exposed to genital herpes. He said other diseases that could arise from using saliva as sex lubricant include Human Papilo Virus (HPV), syphilis, chlamydia and even gonorrhoea among others. The medical expert said it could be worse for women as saliva could upset the vagina environment to cause vaginal or yeast infections.
The doctor advises that couples should engage in foreplay before sex as this helps to create lubrication in the vagina. However, in an instance where foreplay doesn’t achieve the desired result, Dr Johnson proffers that one should get a lubricant from a registered pharmacy.
Artificial lubricants reduce vaginal dryness. Lubes are available in many different textures, flavours, and materials to suit a person’s needs and preferences. Lubes come in a variety of bases; water, silicone and oil. Water: Silicone: Oil: In this article
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