discharge

The most likely possibility is that what you're seeing coming out of your vagina is simply semen: the sexual fluid which carries sperm. The vagina isn't a bottomless pit: it ends with the cervix, the base of the uterus. The opening to the cervix -- called the os -- is incredibly small. It can dilate...

It really depends, because there are a few possibilities, and it could be any one or all of them. Most commonly, that'd just be a person with a vagina's usual vaginal discharges. At nearly any given time, we have vaginal discharges and cervical mucus which are part of our monthly fertility cycle...

Anon: first things first. Obviously, on top of giving oral sex when you don't even want to, you've also been doing it unprotected. So, the very first thing I'd advise you strongly to do is to go into your doctor or sexual healthcare clinic and get a full STI screen, including a screen for your mouth...

Hi there, metronidazole (Flagyl) is the most common treatment for bacterial vaginosis (BV). While many people who contract BV don't show symptoms, when they do, the discharge that usually occurs is milky-greyish and fishy-smelling. that doesn't really fit with the description you gave. However it is...

I'm afraid you're not going to like my answer very much. Really? You don't want to be having intercourse -- or even outercourse, if it isn't comfortable and protected -- when you're not fully over a yeast infection (as your treatment will mention in the instructions). For starters, yeast infections...

You know, this happens a lot. That, after a person becomes sexually active, or does a given new sexual thing, they'll notice what appear to be changes with their body. But when it all gets sorted out, it pretty much always turns out that there wasn't anything different. In other words, that your...

Vaginal discharge and secretions are normal and usually healthy. The vagina is a passageway between the outside of the body and the internal reproductive system. Vaginal secretions are how the vagina cleanses and regulates itself -- how amazing is that? -- in the same sort of way that saliva helps keep your mouth clean and healthy and part of the fertility cycle.