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What's some sex ed info you didn't know until embarrasingly late? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] 195 points 2 years ago (28 children)

I am a medical interpreter and until like three months ago I didn't know that women had clear fluid secretions on the regular, as in as a normal part of their life monthly cycle. No one, not any gf nor my actual gf or any friend had told me that. I hadn't heard about it anywhere, either on the news, on small talk, on jokes, on serious conversations, on sex ed, nowhere. I was in wonder not because of the fact, but because of how little info about it there is until I got the info in my job, and even there i hadn't heard about it before nor after. It's so weird for something so common to be this quiet.

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  • [โ€“] 178 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    You know what's extra fun about this?

    Those secretions bleach underwear. That's right, my cute black panties are all inevitably doomed to have a white spot in the crotch over time!

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  • [โ€“] 80 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I kept reading and hearing this and since it doesn't happen to me I thought something was wrong with me. So I'd like to add that according to my gyn it's also perfectly normal to not have this happen!

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  • [โ€“] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Depends on your Ph level. Everyone's is different.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I keep hearing this but what is it? Is it a way the body regulates ph? Is it some sorta chemical reaction that happens internally that gets rejected by the body? Is it just mucus wherein the body just makes too much?

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Im not a vagina haver, and I hear that the PH levels can also slowly cause holes in a lot of fabrics. That sounds rough, my washing machine slowly ruins enough of my clothes on it own.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My feet must sweat sulphuric acid then. :(

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah I didnโ€™t learn that until after I became one. That was a fun thing to be informed is normal after thinking something is wrong

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So when you say "after I became one" are you saying you're trans and have begun to experience this after bottom surgery? If so, I'm wondering if there are the same kind of secretions from the penis that I'm just not noticing. I mean there are times when I drift off in thoughts of sexual fantasies and end up with "pre-cum" in my underwear. I wonder if it's the same process.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As a trans woman, we definitely can get a similar phenomenon, but I can't vouch for how common it is or if it's the same thing.

    If it does happen, it generally starts a while after your hormone levels get consistently in the right place. Don't need surgery. For me, it's even straight up dependant on what brand of estrogen I'm taking. I take injections, and if I'm on 10mg/ml, it happens, but any time I have to take 20mg/ml, it stops. Doesn't matter that my hormone levels haven't shifted even slightly.

    It is known that it's the same organs producing it as males have, but why it begins to behave like that and why it doesn't happen to everyone is, as far as I know, completely unknown.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yep, that's why these things are sold

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  • [โ€“] 85 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I'd almost say the same thing about the fact that ballsacks "breathe" constantly. It's easily confirmed by just looking at them when idle, but nobody talks about it and I never read anything about it until I just... Looked at my own balls for a few seconds and realized they noticeably expand and contract at a discernable speed.

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  • [โ€“] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I wonder if it has to do with temp regulation. Iirc that's the reason why balls can expand and contract to begin with.

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  • [โ€“] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It does. Cold temps, balls close to the body. High temps, long saggy ball bag.

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