Must Be Avoided, Recognize The 3 Risks Of Using Saliva For Lubricant During Penetration

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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 saliva

Any 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 infections

In 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 hurt

Instead 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.