NSFW: The sex toy after it was removed from this lady's vagina.

Let me give you the answers that any experienced OB/GYN would give:

Q: Like, how did she not feel something in there the whole time?
A: The vagina has a tremendous capacity to expand - it accommodates baby's heads, and it expands almost that big during sexual excitement (yes, men, your member, while also not as big as you think it is, is, during sex, if she's really aroused, sometimes making contact with your partner only at its base - the rest of the organ is flapping in the breeze, so to speak.)
In addition, although the penis is very sensitive to sexual stimulation, it doesn't have a very good sense of touch (again, apologies to the Male Ego.)
I have seen calcified tampons, pessaries, toys, cotton gauze, etc. that have been in the vagina unnoticed for way more than the ten years that this woman experienced.

Q: She said sex hasn’t been a problem. Really?
A: Really - see the answer to the first question! Women often put in a tampon while the first one is, unbeknownst to them, still there, and don't feel anything unusual at all.

Q: And what about tampons? How has that been working?
A: Just fine - see below. Retained tampons often lodge in the posterior fornix, a little pocket of loose vaginal lining just behind the cervix. They thus push the bowel out of the way a little, but, hey, that part of the body is used to things getting fuller and emptier all of the time!

Q: And, seriously – HOW DID SHE NOT FEEL SOMETHING IN THERE THE WHOLE TIME?
A: She may have had little clues from time to time (a feeling of fullness or "sitting on a post," smelly - occasionally VERY smelly - vaginal discharge, spotting or light bleeding, etc.) that she attributed to other causes. Remember the old saying: "Denial is not just a river in Egypt." When we want to believe everything is ok, symptoms have to really hit us hard on the head to get our attention.

Would it (or should it) have been discovered on a routine pelvic examination? 1) Did she have any? Women often go for many years without such examinations.and 2) A thorough pelvic examination would probably have discovered it, if the examiner went by the book and visualized and palpated every square centimeter of the vulvar and vaginal epithelium. But people are people, and occasionally fall short of doing things perfectly.

But the reader should not be put off from sex toys by this story. Properly used, when welcomed by both partners, toys such as vibrators can greatly enhance people's, especially women's, sex lives. Especially considering the fact that at least 75% of women cannot achieve orgasm from "regular" vaginal sex alone.

But stick with the rule that everything that goes in must come out again. And, if you have any doubts, see your health care provider and insist that she/he conduct a pelvic examination as I described above.

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