Sex is the beautiful gift by the Lord God given to husband-wife couples. It’s the perfect picture of physical intimacy that He Himself takes pleasure with as we enjoy our spouse.
Don’t believe it? Here’s what God says to Solomon and Tirzah, the couple in Song of Solomon 5.1: Eat, friends; drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.
Sexual expression is the #1 way wives can respect their husbands, hands down. No close second. You can view various writings on this vital subject of sex right here.
Now…there’s lots of misconceptions on the woman’s vagina, and we’re here to clear this up once and for all. We hear objections like:
The vagina is full of germs, and it’s dirty.
An oral genital caress (oral sex) is out of the question since it’s unhealthy.
Rubbish to all of it!
Natalie Angier has written a piece called Woman: An Intimate Geography. Here’s an excerpt on the truth about the woman’s vagina. We suspect she’s not saved by some of her comments. But this piece is priceless in dispelling bad information about sexual expression in the confines of marriage.
Here’s the excerpt…
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Sharon Hillier, a gynecologist at Magee-Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, is out to buff the image of the vagina.
“But really, anywhere you go, the story is the same,” she said. “Women are taught that their vaginas are dirty. In fact, a normal healthy vagina is the cleanest space in the body. It’s much cleaner than the mouth, and much, much cleaner than the rectum.”
She sighed.
“The negative training starts early. My five-year-old daughter came home from school the other day and said, ‘Mommy, the vagina is full of germs.'” Part of the brainwashing involves a lot of big fish stories. The vagina is said to have a fishy odor, a source of great merriment to male comedians.
The crux of the vaginal ecosystem, said Hillier, is symbiosis, a mutually advantageous and ongoing barter between macroenvironment and microorganism. Yes, the vagina is full of germs, in the sense of bacteria; it swims with life forms, and you hope it stays that way. But there are germs and germs. When conditions are healthy, the germs, or rather bacteria, in the vagina do a body good. They are lactobacilli, the same bacteria found in yogurt. “A healthy vagina is as clean and pure as a carton of yogurt,” said Hillier. (Why do I suspect that we’re not likely to see Danno picking up on this slogan anytime soon?) And so the smell: “A normal vagina should have a slightly sweet, slightly pungent odor…It should have the lactic acid smell of yogurt.”
The contract is simple. We provide lactobacilli with food and shelter-the comfort of the vaginal walls, the moisture, the proteins, the sugars of our tissue. They maintain a stable population and keep competing bacteria out. Merely by living and metabolizing, they generate lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide, which are disinfectants that prevent colonization by less benign microbes.
The robust vagina is an acidic vagina, with a pH of 3.8 to 4.5. That’s somewhat more acidic than black coffee (with a pH of 5) but less piquant than a lemon (pH 2). In fact, the idea of pairing wine and women isn’t a bad one, as the acidity of the vagina in health is just about that of a glass of red wine. This is the vagina that sings; this is the vagina with bouquet, with legs.
Nor is ordinary vaginal discharge anything to be mortified about. It is made up of the same things found in blood serum, the clear, thin, sticky liquid that remains behind when the solid components of blood, like clotting factors, are separated away. Vaginal discharge consists of water, albumin-the most abundant protein in the body-a few stray white blood cells, and mucin, the oily substance that gives the vagina and cervix their slippery sheen.
Discharge is not dirt, certainly, and it is not a toxic waste product of the body in the sense of urine and feces. No, no, no. It is the same substance as what’s inside the vagina, neither better nor worse, pulled down because we’re bipedal and gravity exists, and because on occasion the cup runneth over…
But, gals, there’s no denying it: sometimes we stink, and we know it. Not like strawberry yogurt or a good Cabernet but like, alas, albacore. Or even skunk. How does this happen? If you haven’t bathed for a week, I’ll let you figure it out for yourself. But sometimes it’s not a question of hygiene; it’s a medical issue, a condition called bacterial vaginosis. For a number of reasons, the balance of flora within the vagina is upset, and the lactobacilli start to founder.
In their stead, other organisms proliferate, particularly anaerobic bacteria, which thrive in the absence of oxygen. These microbes secrete a host of compounds, each fouler In other words, if you’re having a problem with unspeakable “feminine odor,” that syndrome so coyly referred to in all the ads for douches and feminine deodorants, you could have an infection, often a low-grade, chronic one, with no symptoms beyond the odiferous. Some of the causes of such infections are known.
Among the biggest is . . . douching. In an effort to get fresh ‘n’ clean and to look like the dewy, virginal women pictured on the packages of Massengill, women can make themselves dirtier than ever. Douching kills off the beneficial lactobacilli and paves the way for infestation by anaerobes and their trails of cadaverine. So while I rarely dispense medical advice, this one is easy: don’t douche, ever, period, end of squirt bottle.
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Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,
Marc
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James Wingate says
Our Great and Wonderful LORD has designed humans gloriously and adequately for marriage and the following activities of human conjugal love. AS the LORD explained to His apostle, Simon Peter, “What I have cleansed, call thou not common or unclean.” We tend to denigrate many things we do not understand; and so it is with much of human sexuality. We, as Believers, must gladly and openly embrace all the things He has made available for us to enjoy. Away with the shaming so often plied upon human sexuality and its normal desires and curiosities. Immorality is unclean; but not God-given practices He gave us to freely enjoy. “To the unclean, all things are unclean.” Believe in Him and enjoy the things He has, indeed, freely given to us human beings.
jesusislord says
Brother James,
What an encouraging word from you on this! May the Lord bless all you put your hand to in these trying days…
Brother Marc