Having vaginal intercourse for the first time increases the levels of immune system proteins in the vagina, suggesting the body is responding to being exposed to new bacteria
, also at the University of Washington, says that we shouldn’t assume that the changes the new study saw are bad.
“There’s a lot of rhetoric saying that sexual behaviour has risky consequences for adolescents, but we don’t want to assume that these changes are negative,” she says.Namarta Kalia at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, who wasn’t involved in the study. She applauds the effort that went into obtaining and comparing the data from Belgium and Kenya to make the results more robust, but says the outcome isn’t particularly surprising.“It’s obvious that sexual intercourse will result in changes to immune mediators, as an exchange of microbiota between two partners is involved,” says Kalia.
But in most cases, the purpose of inflammation is to “maintain vaginal homeostasis” when the microbiome is maintained by a host of good bacteria protecting it from infection, says Kalia. In the future, the team hopes to have a better understanding of how changes in immune function affects women’s risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections.
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