Sexual Health Questions Answered - a podcast by Dr. Jessica OReilly

The brilliant Dr. Jessica Shepherd (@JShepherd_MD) joins Jess to talk about vaginal health and answer a few sexual health questions from listeners. If you have questions you’d like us to answer, send them our way! We love to hear from you.

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Participant #1:Hello out there. And welcome to another episode of the Sex With Dr. Jess podcast. I am Jessica O'Reilly, your friendly neighborhood psychologist, and my goal is to provide you with with accurate sciencebased, information and insights that will help you to have happier relationships and a more fulfilling sex life. However, you define that, and I want you to feel great about yourself, to love your body, to embrace your desires and everything that comes with them. Now, today's show is all about sexual health, and it's brought to you by Desire Resorts, one of my favorite places to visit down in Mexico. You can Tan nude, meet new, exciting people from all over the world, and it's couple's only clothing optional. Check them out at Desire Resorts. Now, today, I am really thrilled to have Dr. Jessica Shepard with me as a guest. And Dr. Shepherd is an obstetrician gynecologist and director of Minimally Invasive Gynecology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She specializes in endometriosis fibroid and minimally invasive surgical approaches to gynecological diseases and much, much more. We met about a year and a half ago in Toronto working on an event, and she's brilliant, lovely. She's beautiful, which doesn't matter, but I can't not think about that. So Jessica, Dr. Shepherd, thank you for being with us. Absolutely. I think we have a lot more in common than that. We have same first name. We have Jamaican heritage. We're Canadian. I mean, we're both doctors. I don't know how much more I can get than that. That's awesome. Yes. And you're a medical doctor, so you can answer a ton of questions that I just don't have any background on. So today we're going to be answering questions from my Twitter followers, from some of our listeners about sexual health and sexual challenges. But before we do, I came across an article and of course. Oh, boy. Yeah. It was plastered all over my Facebook. And here's the headline, Vaginas Absolutely Need Sex or the Waste Away Study. My first reaction is one who wrote that. And two, can I visit them and talk to them about vaginas and just how awesome vaginas are and why they really are in the wonderful powerhouse of the body, which is the pelvis. And that is absolutely not true. It's not necessarily the opposite, but to say that it would waste away. I think that's for lack of a better term, that's not so nice to say that about the vagina, but there are definitely ways to keep it vibrant, but it doesn't necessarily mean if you don't use it, then it's going to go away, right? I mean, you asked who wrote it. Maybe that's the answer in and of itself. This is The New York Post we're talking about. So one of the pieces of the advice I found in the article suggests that if cells don't get enough oxygen, they cannot eliminate waste from the tissue, which can cause inflammation that leads to problems. Such as vaginal atrophy. And of course, they're connecting us to sex, saying, if you don't have the sex, the vagina is going to run into trouble. So what is the relationship between sex and vaginal health? So the relationship really is vagina is very forgiving as far as what the vagina is able to withstand and withhold. And if you think about it,

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