What exactly is lube?
Lube is short for lubricant. It refers to a variety of products that can be used to make the vagina slippery and sex more enjoyable. These are useful for women who don’t produce enough natural lubricant and they can also help prevent condoms from breaking. As for what they are made of, there are probably as many formulas as there are products. Water-based lubricants (such as K-Y Jelly, Wet or Astroglide) contain water and some other substance to make them slippery. They can also contain flavours, colours, perfumes and spermicides if you wish, however some of these things can irritate the vagina, so experiment carefully. Oils like Vaseline or massage oil can also make the vagina slippery, but these products break down the latex in condoms making them more likely to break. Lastly saliva can act as a lubricant, and may be fun to apply, but it tends to dry up more quickly than some of the commercial products. As well as we have noted above, saliva is a body fluid, and oral sex does involve
