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.

And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.

Hey, ladies, today's kind of more of a medical podcast.

I'm going to talk about arousal and feeling like you don't have arousal and what arousal

and vaginal moisture and wetness is all about.

And also some over-the-counter products and kind of the prescriptions that people use

to either increase moisture or increase arousal.

This is not personal medical advice. This is just education and entertainment. I always have to tell people that.

But anything that I can do to empower you to then go ask the right questions or advocate for yourself, that is why I do it.

So I got a question about what do I do about having

more moisture during sex? This is a great question because some people feel like they have too much

moisture, too much discharge. Some people feel like they don't have enough. Certainly the moisture

that female pelvis is produced during intercourse or during sex in general is normal.

Some people produce more than others. There are certain conditions like breastfeeding,

menopause, birth control pills that can decrease or change the amount of just number one

vaginal discharge that a woman experiences or number two, how much she produces

during arousal.

In a young female, so a person who has great estrogen, who's not on birth control, because

sometimes birth control can decrease the amount of estrogen that's seeing the vulva in the vagina.

The vagina produces a lot of discharge in mucus, and it'll vary along the,

you know, months in her cycle and kind of where she is in her cycle. A lot of this discharge

is produced by the cervix, cervical mucus, which helps facilitate sperm entry. And it's very

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