Health is so important, and understanding how to take care of yourself to be at your best really does matter. But everything you read, see on TV, or hear from your family or friends isn’t necessarily true.
It’s (probably) not that people are trying to intentionally mislead you, it’s just that there are lots of opinions out there, and lots of things that people may have learned from their own family and friends that aren’t exactly right.
So, to get to the bottom of what people need to know about vaginal (and vulvar) health (arguably one of the topics we keep most off limits), we turned to two doctors to explain what you might be doing thinking it’s A-OK, but that you really, really shouldn’t be.
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