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The Vulva
Simply washing with soap and water during a bath
or shower is enough to avoid unpleasant vaginal odors.
A healthy vagina is self-cleaning.
Avoid feminine sprays, and douching
(cleansing the vagina by using a douche bag or squeeze bottle to
wash the vagina with a solution of water and vinegar or other commercial
douche preparation.) Douching was more common in the past. Today
we know that these solutions irritate the sensitive tissue in and
around the vagina and provide no benefit to you. Douching in a way
is more superstitious than practical. Just because your mother may
have done it, does not mean you have to. Douching can be abusive
if your parent is forcing you to do it. If this is the case, read
our section on abuse
for help.
A clear whitish to pale yellow nonirritating vaginal
discharge is normal, especially during sexual excitement or ovulation.
Infection
Symptoms of infection include...
- Irritation and itching
- Presence of nonmenstrual blood
- A different color than your usual discharge
- An unpleasant odor.
This can be especially noticeable during and immediately following
sexual intercourse. Make sure you haven't forgotten to remove
an old tampon. These can get stuck deep inside the vagina especially
after intercourse, resulting in very unpleasant odors and the
release of dark, old, foul smelling menstrual blood.
If you notice any one of these symptoms and
you've ruled out the old tampon mistake, consult a physician
immediately. Ignoring these symptoms or
attempting to self-treat could be very hazardous to your health.
Only medical professionals are trained to differentiate between
the many different types of vaginal infections, each of which requires
a unique treatment. Examples of infections include...
- Yeast infection
An abnormally large population of natural vaginal
bacteria caused by tight clothing, prolonged use of antibiotics
or birth control pills.
- Bacterial vaginosis
An infection of foreign bacteria often ocurring
during stress and caused by prolonged use of antibiotics, or mutual
or self-masturbation where the object of insertion is not clean.
- Trichomoniasis
An infection of protozoa caused by shared wash
cloths, towels, wet bathing suits, toilet seats, or sexual contact.
- Sexually transmitted diseases
STD such as chlamydia and gonorrhea could be
the cause of your symptoms and if left untreated could lead to
infertility and damage to your health. So as mentioned before,
it's important to have your symptoms diagnosed by a physician
as soon as possible.
Breasts
Two masses of fat and glandular
tissue lying over the chest muscles. Each breast contains
15 to 20 glandular lobes, embedded within fat. Each lobe is composed
of several milk-producing alveolar glands. Hormones stimulate these
glands to produce milk during pregnancy. Each lobe has a lactiferous
duct, which carries its milk directly to the nipple. Each duct widens
to form a sinus just before reaching the surface of the nipple.
Milk is stored within these sinuses, until the baby sucks it out
through pores in the nipple. The areola
(the darker area of skin around the nipple) produces a secretion
that protects the nipple during breast-feeding.
Why are the breasts so sensitive and why are
men fixated on them? Female humans are
the only female primates that have swollen mammary glands when they
are not producing milk. This is evidence that women's breasts
have evolved to serve more functions than nursing their young alone.
Breasts provide pleasure during sexual activity and play a role
in attracting a mate. Throughout their evolution our female ancestors
who received pleasure during mating and breast-feeding, were selected
because this provided incentive to mate thus producing more offspring
and to nourish those offspring ensuring their survival. Similarly
our male ancestors have been selected throughout their evolution
to be attracted to a female with healthy breasts, because this attraction
provided incentive to mate and reproduce, and ensures the female's
ability to nourish the offspring. This attraction remains as a remnant
of evolution and early life. Today there are many substitutes for
breast milk, making the appearance of a woman's breasts unrelated
to the survival of her offspring. Another attraction existing today
as a remnant of our past is that of a woman's hips. Studies
have found that men are attracted to women, whose hips were proportionately
a certain degree larger than their waistline. This might have represented
a larger birth canal and thus a greater ability to bear offspring.
However, today with Caesarian sections, the size of a woman's
hips have little to do with her ability to bear children.
- Another word for breast is mamma or mammary gland.
Mammals is a classification for more than 15,000 species of verebrates
(animals having a spine) including ourselves. Mammals are characterized
by being warm blooded, having hair, and females having breasts.This
amazing collection of animals is basically named after the scientific
word for breasts. Why didn't they name the classification after
hair? Because even male scientists are apparently fixated on breasts!
Internal female genitalia
Female Masturbation
Sex
External
male genitalia
Internal male genitalia
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