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Be Careful with the Soap when Washing Your Private Parts
Did you know that when women wash their private parts too often - or when they do it with the soap, this can cause vaginal infection?
Be careful with the soap! The pH value of the vagina is between 3,8 and 4,5, which means that the vagina's natural environment is acidic. This environment protects the vagina from many bacteria. Women often wash with regular shower soap down there. This is a mistake! Body soaps have a higher pH value than our vaginas and therefore regular soap is not recommended for washing your vagina. It takes only a little for the mucous membrane of the vagina to become infected....Be Careful with the Soap when Washing Your Private Parts
Sex Life of People with Fibromyalgia (Fibrositis)
How to decrease the effect of pain resulting from fibromyalgia or fibrositis and maintain a satisfactory sex life for both partners?
What is fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) belongs to the group of rheumatic disorders that don’t affect joints. People usually feel an extended pain in the muscles and tendons of the whole body, but at first they can only feel pain in one part of the body and the pain later also extends to other body parts. Pain is described differently, as a burning pain or a tearing pain or stiffness. Approximately 90% of people with fibromyalgia are moderately or very...Sex Life of People with Fibromyalgia (Fibrositis)
Do Depresssed Women Have Intercourse More Often?
According to a research done by an English health magazine, women who suffer from depression have 30 per cent more sexual encounters than women in a “normal” psychological state.
The study included women who suffer from various degrees of depression and women who have no problems with depression. In the study, different factors were taken into consideration, such as status (relationship or single), kissing, foreplay and sexual intercourse. Research showed that depressed women crave sexual intercourse much more and that they tend to experiment more and have sexual adventures more often. Single women who suffer from depression have more sexual...Do Depresssed Women Have Intercourse More Often?
Say No to Chlamydia
Many people are infected with chlamydia. Don't be one of them.
Chlamydia is one of the most widely spread sexually transmitted diseases, which mostly threatens young people from 16 to 24 years of age. It often occurs without any warning signs, so it often happens that it is not found in time and is not treated, which can be really harmful! The treatment can be simple and effective, however, the infection must be discovered soon enough. Chlamydia with men Chlamydia can cause an unspecific infection of...Say No to Chlamydia
Nipple Inversion
Flat nipples or nipple inversion are a phenomenon that affects 10 per cent of women in one way or another.
What are flat or inverted nipples? In most women, nipples stick out from 0.2-0.4 inches from the lobe. Of course, their size changes during sexual intercourse because of arousal. The so-called inverted nipples, or in other words nipples that are turned inwards, become erect in another way during sexual arousal. The nipple does not become erect outwards, but it turns inwards. Inverted nipples may look like a dimple. Both men and women have them, especially if they are...Nipple Inversion
Gonorrhea
Read everything you need to know about gonorrhea, a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease that affects mostly men.
Gonorrhea or the clap is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, also known as tripper. It is mainly transmitted through sexual intercourse. In most cases it affects young, sexually active people. It is a bacterial infection caused by the gonococcus or Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The disease is highly contagious. In sexual intercourse, the bacteria are transmitted from the mucous membrane of an infected person’s genitals to the...Gonorrhea
Do Contraceptive Patches Work?
Here's everything you want to know about a contraception method which many people prefer to the pill. Do contraceptive patches work?
A contraceptive patch is a small, narrow and sticky patch that contains the same hormones as a contraceptive pill - estrogen and progestogen. The patch has many advantages: the protection against pregnancy is 99% certain, and we do not have to think of contraception every day, as in case of taking the pill. Women can bathe and go to sauna with a patch. The only deficiency is perhaps the fact that it is visible. How do contraceptive patches work? A patch...Do Contraceptive Patches Work?
