9 Interesting Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Veejay

How much do you know about your veejay? Check out these 9 interesting facts you’ve probably never heard about…

1. It’s self-cleaning. The veejay or vagina has colonies of microorganisms that keep harmful bacteria and germs at bay. It also keeps itself clean naturally through its secretions or discharge.

Avoid douching or washing with perfumed soaps, gels and antiseptics to prevent creating an imbalance in pH levels and healthy bacteria content as this may cause irritation and make the vagina prone to yeast infections and abnormal vaginal discharge.

2. It’s pH (acid/base balance) is said to be same as that of wine, tomatoes and beer. The veejay’s pH level is around 4. This enables it keep itself healthy. However, as stated earlier, douching and excessive washing with soaps may change the pH of the vagina. Exposure to semen as well as vaginal infections may change it as well.

3. Like sharks, vaginas contain the substance squalene. This substance contained in shark livers, is a natural vaginal lubricant.

4. It expands up to 200 percent during intercourse or childbirth. Vaginas are lined with ringed muscular ridges which enables them expand whenever the occasion calls for it. For instance, when a woman is aroused, the vagina doubles in size.

It is said that this expansion as well as the shape of the vagina during sexual arousal varies from one woman to the other due to tenting, which causes expansion of the upper two-thirds of the vagina. This upward tenting is thought to foster sperm movement up into the cervix to aid conception.

5. The clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings while the penis only has 4,000. This explains why this tiny part of the vagina is considered most sensitive. Sensations can spread from the clitoris across a woman’s pelvic area by affecting 15,000 other nerve endings.

6. Your diet may affect how you smell down there. It is also said that what you eat influences your vaginal smell. Eating foods with pungent smell such as garlic, are especially thought to influence how you smell down there. How it smells may also vary during ovulation.

Apart from your diet, the combination of normal bacteria that live in the vagina, the types of fabric you wear, your level of hygiene, how much you sweat as well as your gland secretions may also affect vaginal smell.

7. It tells you when it’s best to make a baby. Your vagina gives you the heads-up when you’re most fertile, so you can try for a baby or avoid sex if you have no baby-making plans through cervical mucus discharge during ovulation. This mucus is usually clear, sticky and stretchy.

8. Like the breasts, they can get saggy too. Your genes, age, rigours of pregnancy and childbirth, hormonal changes, and so on, can weaken your vaginal muscles and cause sagging. Kegel exercises and maintaining a healthy weight may help.

9. It farts too. A ‘vaginal fart’ is common. However, unlike gas passed from your rectum, it is odourless and has nothing to do with the rectum.