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A member asked:

If you wipe your vagina clean after sex can you still get pregnant?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Yes: Douching afterwards was previously considered a method of contraception, but it doesn't work.

Dr Zacharias agreed

Answered 3/14/2013

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