“Im a 33-year-old woman who has great hygiene and was raised by a nurse practitioner.

If I didnt know this, Im confident many others might not either.”

Well, this week is no different.

Person with long hair under a shower, washing their hair with shampoo, hands on their head

Im a 33-year-old woman who has great hygiene and was raised by a nurse practitioner.

I had to learn more, so I reached out toDr.

She kindly sat down for a call with me, and it was truly eye-opening.

A gynecologist performs a pelvic exam on a patient in a medical office. The doctor wears a lab coat, cap, mask, and gloves

When you get erections and it moves and stretches, it doesn’t feel so good.

It’s not comfortable."

“The clitoris is exactly the same thing in every way, shape, and form.

A doctor in a white coat sits in an office chair, smiling and talking with a young boy seated on an examination table

And we have no research about what to do [for clitoral adhesions].”

Later, a similar study done in college students found a similar number of clitoral adhesions.

It’s totally covered over with the hood."

Close-up of a woman wearing lace underwear with hands resting on the abdomen, laying on a bed. No visible faces

Note that the images are NSFW, for obvious reasons.

People with clitoral adhesions reported various symptoms.

“We’re not cutting anything; we’re not sewing anything… That is called a corona.”

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The word ‘game-changer’ just kept being written over and over and over again."

But there’s still so much more research that needs to be done.

So we need research about who this happens to and why it happens.

We need research about other techniques and other ways we could prevent them."