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What effect does sexual arousal have on a womans vagina?

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Dr. Michael Sinclair answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

It depends: With normal, pleasurable sexual intercourse, the vagina is stretched, becomes lubricated and engorged and if you have an orgasm then it contracts in a rhythmic pattern.

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Answered 9/29/2019

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