71. Viva La Vulvar Expert! Dr. Krapf

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dr. Jill Krapf is a gynecologist specializing in vulvovaginal disorders in Washington DC. She is prominent on IG @jillkrapfmd and you can find her at vulvodynia.com Dr. Krapf is active in research and has published chapters and peer-reviewed articles on vulvodynia, vulvar dermatoses, and hypoactive sexual desire disorder. She is Associate Editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine, as well as for the textbook Female Sexual Pain Disorders, 2nd Edition. What is the vulva? What is vulvar pain and what are the causes? Myths on social media Where should a woman start if she has vulvar pain? Tips for women with vulvar pain when it comes to sex? What is “pelvic floor dysfunction”? What prompted you to go to social media with your message? Tips for women who aren’t sexually active but are looking to partner up soon? “uti” after sex – talk about when this is NOT a UTI I recently saw a young women with vaginal discharge x 5 years. She had been told by her friends that it wasn’t normal, had a good extensive workup by a gyn clinic. Can you comment on what is normal “down there”. CBD suppositories and lubricants On that note, can you talk about the care and maintenance of the vulva/vagina. She talks about what it is like to write a book! So Cool! When Sex Hurts https://amzn.to/2R771DE --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.
0:15.9	And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.
0:26.5	Thank you. board certified female urologist Dr. Casperson. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so excited today to have my friend join me, Dr. Kraft,
0:31.3	who's on the East Coast and I'm on the West Coast and we've never met in real life,
0:35.1	but someday when real life can happen again, we're going to meet.
0:38.7	It's going to be awesome.
0:40.1	She's a gynecologist specializing in Volvo vaginal disorders in Washington, D.C.
0:45.3	She's prominent on Instagram at Jill CraftmD.
0:48.2	It's J-I-L-L-K-R-A-P-F-M-D.
0:52.3	And you can find her at volvodinia.com.
0:55.2	She's not only a physician, but then she got a master's in education, which is so clearly
0:59.5	apparent when I look on her education that she does on Instagram.
1:03.8	She's active in research and has published chapters and peer-reviewed articles on
1:07.5	vulvodinia, vulvar dermatoses, which is skin disorders of the vulva, and
1:12.8	hypoactive sexual desire disorder. She's the associate editor for the Journal of Sexual
1:17.2	Medicine, as well as for the textbook Female Sexual Pain Disorders, which just came out
1:21.4	with its second edition, which is awesome. Welcome, Dr. Kraft. I'm so excited you're talking to us
1:26.5	today. Thank you for having me.
1:29.0	I'm glad we could finally get together. We've been talking about it for so long. I know.
1:33.2	It's awesome. So let's start at the basics. What is the vulva?
1:37.8	So yes. I spend a majority of my time on social media educating about the vulva. And that's great. It's a great place to
1:46.0	start. So the vulva is actually the least examined part of the female body. Most women do not
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