# Female lubrication...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 12, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-lubrication/72256 "2001-07-12T19:38:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-lubrication/72256/1 "2001-07-12T19:38:32Z")

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…What is the actual medical terminology and make up of female lubrication? A google search only brought the results of it either being called “wetness” or “lubrication.” Anyone?

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**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-lubrication/72256/2 "2001-07-12T20:15:49Z")

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Any OB/GYNs here?

I only know one component, (well, two if you count water) and can guess a few others.

When I acquired a recurring sebaceous cyst on my groin that flared up every time I had sex, I complained about it to my doctor. He said that vaginal lubrication was mostly sebum.

Sebum is created in abundance, all over the body. It’s the stuff that keeps your skin and hair supple, or oily if there’s too much. When it gets infected and smelly and gooey, it’s also the stuff that you pop out of your zits. Romantic, no? 😉

As for the other ingredients, there’s surely some water in there, and probably a few trace ingredients like assorted proteins, sugars and enzymes, pheremones, urea? I’m just guessing after that.

There’s also an entire menagerie of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa - all typically harmless. In fact, some of them are necessary for good health.

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**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-lubrication/72256/3 "2001-07-12T22:09:43Z")

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bughunter wrote:

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> There’s also an entire menagerie of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa - all typically harmless. In fact, some of them are necessary for good health.

Which is why we should all consume a little regularly.

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**Author:** ![MrDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@MrDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDeath)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-lubrication/72256/4 "2001-07-12T22:17:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by bughunter \*  
> \*\*There’s also an entire menagerie of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa - all typically harmless. In fact, some of them are necessary for good health. \*\*

Delicious, _and_ it’s good for you! 😃

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-lubrication/72256/5 "2001-07-12T23:08:59Z")

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My favorite form of female lubrication is when I spread warm, sweet almond oil over her trembling body, and lower my body onto hers, for the delicious slippery friction, nipples on nippples, tummys on tummys…sigh.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-lubrication/72256/6 "2001-07-13T03:19:38Z")

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how about SAE-WD40?