47 Shocking Things Women Didn’t Know About Pregnancy, Birth Control, And Their Own Bodies

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“I am a medical professional, but this dumb misconception didn’t come from a patient; it came from my own mother. In a casual conversation about the menopause between my sisters and me. We got onto the subject of vaginal dryness and different things we had all tried. Now I’m one of nine kids; I have six sisters. We are all at the same peri menopausal or menopausal stage in life. My mum chimes into the conversation with this absolutely corker: ‘I was never dry down there because the urine makes you wet.’ We all looked at one another as if to say, ‘Well, I ain’t gonna explain this one!!!’ She had gone through her entire life thinking everything — urine, poop, babies, period blood, and sex — all happened in one hole.”

“Now, I get that older folks didn’t get sex education, but hell, she had lots of kids, several husbands, and was an assistant on a labour and delivery ward. And yes, my username is rather ironic.”

—u/Best_enjoyed_wet