They maintained that the vagina produces lubrication fairly quickly as women become aroused. But for many perfectly normal women, vaginal lubrication takes much longer to appear, and when it does, there may not be much of it. Not only is this way off the mark, but it has led to a destructive corollary, the notion that if a woman does not produce much natural lubrication, she is neither turned on by her lover nor committed to the relationship. Print story E-mail story View Salon privately with SafeWeb Instant gushing lubrication may happen to some women. But it's much more common for a woman to feel committed to her relationship and erotically aroused by her lover, and still not self-lubricate much, if at all.
Some women naturally produce less vaginal lubrication than others.
Just as height varies, so does propensity to self-lubricate. Calif. It's just who they are. Unfortunately, women who do not produce much lubrication often feel abnormal, even though they are not. The more of the sex hormone in a woman's bloodstream, the more she self-lubricates. Estrogen production begins to decline during a woman's 40s as she approaches menopause.