Commercially available intimate lubricants may increase people’s susceptibility to infection that is sexually transmitted), US researchers reported recently. A report unearthed that those who regularly utilized store bought ‘lubes’ for rectal intercourse were 3 x more prone to have an STI than individuals who failed to.

The research 1 verifies outcomes announced at the 2010 Global Microbicides Conference. It discovered that those who had regularly used commercially available lubricants while being the passive partner in rectal intercourse over the past month (the final year if feminine) had been 3 times more prone to test good for syphilis, rectal gonorrhoea or chlamydia than those who hadn’t.