For a long time now, doctors have been suggesting women to use personal lubricants in order to improve the pleasure of sexual intercourse and also to minimise the probability of vaginal tearing.
However, very less statistics on women’s use of lubricants or related vaginal symptoms are available.
New study details
For conducting the latest study, researchers from the Centre for Sexual Health Promotion (CSHP), Indiana University (I-U) took into account 2,453 women aged between 18 and 68 years.
The study, which was conducted by Debby Herbenick, associate director of CSHP, took into consideration those women who made use of one of six different water or silicone-based lubricants that are available in the market.
Out of all the women studied, the percentage of those who were heterosexual was 85.6 and married women comprised 56.4 percent of the participants. The average age of the participants was 32.5 years, according to CSHP.
The women strongly recommended the use of lubricants after the completion of the study as they felt that it enhanced their sexual experience in more than 70 percent of the events.
The women also added that use of lubricants made sexual intercourse a very pleasurable and more comfortable activity.
Apart from this, the researchers also looked at the side-effects of using the lubricants and found that there were hardly any of them.
It was found that the occurrence of vaginal tearing during vaginal intercourse was a mere less than one percent in women who used lubricants. Also, the incidences of genital pain were seen in less than five percent of intercourse cases.
A similar study
Another related study done by CSHP to determine the use of lubricants during vaginal intercourse took into account 1,834 men.
46.8 percent men used a latex condom and 24.7 percent of the participants made use of a lubricant. In this study, 8,876 coital events were reported in all.
How the lubricants are useful
Lubricants have been found to be very useful during sexual activity as they significantly cut down the chances of vaginal tearing.
Vaginal tearing has been found to increase the chances of contracting HIV
and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
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