Dr. Rachel Rubin

But it's not just the labia that change.

The clitoris gets smaller.

Talk about that.

We lose the volume of the clitoris.

The clitoris is a testosterone-driven organ, right?

If men lose testosterone, their penis shrinks up.

If women lose testosterone, which they do in their 30s, their clitoris starts to get smaller.

If you use things like birth control, it may affect the size of your clitoris, but we haven't studied it to the level that we should because we don't study women's sexual health, right?

So it's this wild thing.

Again, so arousal, right?

right?

Again, plant needing water in order for the vagina to arouse and to fill with blood and you need hormones to help with arousal and lubrication.

The tissue requires hormones in order to work well and have a healthy microbiome and a healthy environment.

And so when you lose hormones, there are consequences.

And those are the sexual symptoms, which

historically, everyone said, just use some lube, lady.

And I'm sorry, we researched this for the guidelines.

Lubricant makes painful sex go from 8 out of 10 pain to 4 out of 10 pain.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to have sex if I have 4 out of 10 pain every time I try to have sex, even if it's a little slipperier, right?

So what if we made the pain go to zero and then added some lubricant?