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The marketing mythology is that are largely bought by female baby boomers who are reaching menopause, younger women taking oral contraceptives, and breastfeeding mothers. However, lubricants are also used by gay couples — of both sexes — and by heterosexual lovers looking to spice up their love lives with new-age lubes that give a warming sensation K-Y recently expanded its range to include a liquid lubricant, K-Y Liquid, and a warming lubricant, K-Y Warming or which are, for example, chocolate flavoured.
There may be something luxurious about slathering on sexual lubricant, but the cultural quandaries posed by the increasing use of these products are complex. Why, for instance, would you need your lover to taste of chocolate? And if you do, why not use actual chocolate? Why would a woman who is neither on the Pill, breastfeeding or going through menopause have trouble producing her own lubrication? Likewise, more and more women are also taking anti-depressants and this can interfere with natural lubrication.
Those thorny questions aside, there are genuine reasons to rethink the use of personal lubricants. Sex should be a healthy act, but lubricants can contain a range of unhealthy ingredients. Yet in our research we found that some manufacturers of lubricant products Durex Play, for example do not even declare the product ingredients on the package, making safe comparative choices impossible. Because of the way in which personal lubricants are used — in intimate places and in the heat of the moment — most of these ingredients are preservatives such as sodium hydroxide also known as lye or caustic soda that can be irritating to the mucous membranes.
Some, like parabens, are not only irritating, they are oestrogenic. Most of the data on skin absorption of these chemicals is based on skin outside the body or on oral ingestion. As always when raising the issue of potentially toxic effects, there will be someone who argues that very large doses of these chemicals need to be ingested or absorbed before they cause harm; but what are the effects low but chronic, exposure over time?
In addition, where is the safety data on the exposure via the mucous membranes to such chemicals? Mucous membranes are the moist layer of semi-permeable tissue lining the mouth, nose, eyes, vagina and anus.
Because they do not have the protective layer stratum corneum found on the surface of the outer skin, mucous membranes can be damaged, irritated and penetrated by synthetic chemicals much more easily.
Rectal and vaginal absorption is, generally speaking, many times greater than oral absorption. There are other issues with lubricants that are rarely publicised. Most important of these is their effect on fertility. Many studies have found that personal lubricants have a deleterious effect on sperm function, reducing motility and the ability of sperm to penetrate cervical mucus, even in the small concentrations of less than 10 per cent found in these products.
In fact, several studies that have looked at the effects of lubricants like K-Y Jelly and its brand rivals, such as Astroglide and Replens, have found that they can be as lethal to sperm as a contraceptive jelly.
For instance, in laboratory data presented to the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology and Andrology Lab Workshops in March , exposure to K-Y Jelly after fertilisation was found to cause a severe decline in the ability of embryos to form in vitro.
Personal lubricants can be disastrous for fertility in other ways: for instance, by altering the normal pH of the vagina and cervical mucus. Data from the World Health Organization says that the optimum pH value for sperm migration and survival in cervical mucus is between 7.
Thanks, Kipping! Fortunately, we now have ways to remove silicone lube stains , but that wasn't the case back then. A petrol by-product, Vaseline became a popular lube choice in the mid 20th century. Nonetheless, the first commercially manufactured lube was KY Jelly, which came out in as a surgical lube. It was so popular, a non-sterile version was quickly developed and released to the public the very same year. This same water-based lube is still in existence, over years later and was recently bought out by the Durex company.
To make your own water-based lube, DIY style, find out how here. Crisco was the first hydrogenated oil to be introduced into the market and it quickly took off as a thicker lubricant and became a preferred alternative to liquid oils.
In , Robert Chesebrough invented petroleum jelly brand name Vaseline , which has since caught on as a personal lubricant, especially for circumcised males and for use during anal sex, since it is waterproof and as thick as Crisco. But, like oils, it will damage latex and polyisoprene condoms and is not to be used during safer sex for this reason.
Don't fret. This little lube shooting device will getcha nice 'n wet. A plethora of specialty lubricants, like tingling , warming , desensitizing , flavored , 2-in-1 lube combos and cooling lubes were soon to follow suit in the 20th and 21st century.
Even anal sex specific lubes have been invented, manufactured and consumed with great success and are widely available across the world. Seeing as how far we have come already, who knows what mind blowing innovations will soon arise in the world of personal lubricants? All I know is I am very much looking forward to seeing and trying what's next. Aren't you? Still need help?
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