I had a wonderful daughter of an elderly patient assist with doing a minicath. I missed the first try, making some comment about getting the correct hole, and the confusion at times. The 60 something daughter said "2 holes?". I said something like, you know the pee and the baby hole?
The lady was shocked she had no idea there were two holes down there. I good naturedly covered up my utter surprise at her ignorance regarding this matter.
Can we talk about how many people in the health field dont know how to properly take care of their lady partss? If I see one more nurse on instagram talking about lady partsl steaming, or "yoni pearls" im going to scream. Why do NURSES not understand the risk factors for BV??
Not to be gross,but some cultures like to steam and dry out their lady partsl lubrication for the benefit of men. Some use steam,others use peppers and spices.
Not to be gross,but some cultures like to steam and dry out their lady partsl lubrication for the benefit of men. Some use steam,others use peppers and spices.
Benefit? Because causing discomfort or even pain for your sexual partner is such a turn-on... One reason that lady partsl lubrication exists is to facilitate intercourse. I would imagine that a dry lady parts makes intercourse more difficult for both parties so drying out the lubrication seems like a poor choice. If the guy wants friction he can get creative and think of a method that doesn't involve depriving his partner of her pleasure. I haven't fact checked if this really is a thing in some cultures but if it is, it isn't gross, it's misogyny. Sadly the existence of such a practice wouldn't surprise me, oppression of females is widespread in many cultures, and exists to some degree in most, and the attempt to control and suppress women's sexuality is nothing new.
Many posts in this thread have shocked me. I think it's scary that so many people seem to know so little about the very basics of human anatomy. That people know so little about their own bodies. I don't know if it's a flaw in the educational system or if it's due to cultural influence and taboos about sexuality.
Edited to add in response to Elvish's post.
It's terrible that both women and men suffer from people's inability to leave human genitals alone to do what they do just fine without anyone's interference.
I agree with you 100%. There is absolutely no reason to surgically interfere with a healthy body, female or male.
A good deal of the reason why dudes want more friction is that cultures which practice this kind of thing (lady partsl drying) also circumcise men. A circumcised member is going to pull out most of the lady partsl lubrication we produce, which is all that's generally needed when all genitals are intact. And friction? Guess what a keratinized glans is going to need to feel pleasure? It's terrible that both women and men suffer from people's inability to leave human genitals alone to do what they do just fine without anyone's interference.
(About people not knowing normal genitalia care and yoni pearls and such: It amazes me how many people truly think an intact member requires a great deal more care than a circumcised one. Even American doctors! There is no 'cleaning underneath the foreskin' for babies and children! Just leave the damn thing alone!)
@smartnurse I know that it's a cultural thing and I'm not knocking it but What I'm saying is that as a health care professional you should KNOW that this carries health risks. How can you go to school learn anatomy and physiology at the college level and still insert a ball of chamomile flowers into your lady parts? I just don't understand how you can recommend something that will actually be risky to someone's health.
It amazes me how many people truly think an intact member requires a great deal more care than a circumcised one.
This is a topic for a different thread but there is a substantial amount of data on the health benefits and risks and I am not sure it supports your comment.
Even the AAP, who by far is more pro-circ than any other pediatric health organization in the world and even they stop short of recommending it, says that intact memberes do not require any special cleaning or care. No retraction by anyone but the child is necessary. That is far less complicated than trying to do wound care in a feces-filled diaper, or dealing with adhesions from preputial remnants later on. Evidence from the rest of the industrialized world where circumcision is not the norm backs me up on this, and these places have no clinically significant higher rates of anything that infant circumcision is purported to prevent.
But you're right probably anything beyond this is best left to another thread, and we all know how well circ threads go.
Even the AAP, who by far is more pro-circ than any other pediatric health organization in the world and even they stop short of recommending it, says that intact memberes do not require any special cleaning or care.
Not requiring special cleaning/care does not mean there is no benefit.
"Systematic evaluation of English-language peer-reviewed literature from 1995 through 2010 indicates that preventive health benefits of elective circumcision of male newborns outweigh the risks of the procedure. Benefits include significant reductions in the risk of urinary tract infection in the first year of life and, subsequently, in the risk of heterosexual acquisition of HIV and the transmission of other sexually transmitted infections. Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to warrant third-party payment for circumcision of male newborns. It is important that clinicians routinely inform parents of the health benefits and risks of male newborn circumcision in an unbiased and accurate manner." - AAP/ACOG
I used to work in a rural ER. Had a lady come in, c/o saw her doctor this week and was told she had an ulcer, and now she was bleeding "down there". I helped her into a gown and did a quick peek "down there". We were both quite surprised at the tiny foot emerging from her lady parts.
:eek::eek: I didn't know I was pregnant and it's a footling breech????
Boston FNP, the entire rest of the industrialized world - where infant circ has not been the norm for several decades, if it ever was at all - looked at the exact same evidence and came to the opposite conclusion. A sizable group of European pediatricians called out the AAP for their blatant cultural bias in their 2012 revised statement on infant circ.
You can drastically reduce a child's chances for appendicitis or testicular cancer by doing an appendectomy or an orchiectomy but we don't do it. We don't routinely do tonsillectomies anymore. In most of medicine, the default is to let nature do its thing until a problem arises. Surgically altering the healthy body of a minor child against his/her consent violates several ethical principles.
And about STIs, well....newborns don't get those horizontally. If a grown man wants to choose circ for himself to reduce his chances of HIV or other STIs, let him have at it, but he'll still have to wear a condom.
@smartnurse I know that it's a cultural thing and I'm not knocking it but What I'm saying is that as a health care professional you should KNOW that this carries health risks. How can you go to school learn anatomy and physiology at the college level and still insert a ball of chamomile flowers into your lady parts? I just don't understand how you can recommend something that will actually be risky to someone's health.
What the freak?
Where did I say i taught those things?
I was just making a statement.
Btw,i do not insert chamomile in my lady parts but I have used yogurt on a tampon,for a yeast infection.
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Not to be gross,but some cultures like to steam and dry out their lady partsl lubrication for the benefit of men. Some use steam,others use peppers and spices.
It is called smoking the lady parts.